During the 1930s Dust Bowl, dust storms wiped out entire farms and forced up to 400,000 families to abandon their land. In response, the U.S. passed the Soil Conservation Act and created the Soil Conservation Service. Farmers began contour-plowing, planting cover crops and windbreaks, restoring topsoil, and rebuilding farmland. The Dust Bowl changed farming forever and saved countless homesteads. #DustBowl #soilconservation #farmhistory #americanhistory #midwesthistory #ruralamerica #farmstories

In 1931, severe drought hit the Midwestern and Southern Plains. That nearly 500 miles of farmland would not become golden with wheat until eight years later. Watch "Surviving the Dust Bowl" tonight at 10/9c on PBS or stream it on PBS online the PBS Video app. to.pbs.org/3PQAfyU | American Experience | PBS

191K views · 8.2K reactions | Joe Bonamassa and Tina Guo - "Dust Bowl" from 'Live at Carnegie Hall'  Watch the Full Concert on YouTube ➡️ https://joeb.me/YTP-Carnegie | Joe Bonamassa | Facebook