The film narrates the struggles faced by farmers and ranchers on the Great Plains during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, ...

Children developed often fatal "dust pneumonia," business owners unable to cope with the financial ruin ... and farmers to develop new farming and conservation methods. The Dust Bowl chronicles ...

Russell’s Uz is a desolate, ravaged Dust Bowl town where farmers have lost their crops and residents have perished thanks to extreme weather. A string of murdered women adds to the paranoia gripping ...

The Emergency Farm Mortgage Act allots $200 million ... and workers are given a 25 percent raise. Great dust storms spread from the Dust Bowl area. The drought is the worst ever in U.S. history ...

The recent years-long drought may have tipped parts of the Northern Cape towards an irreversible dust bowl, following decades of heavy grazing and mining. Farming remains the most viable livelihood.

But as the Dust Bowl continued for most of the decade and wheat prices plunged to the lowest in recorded history, two-thirds of Saskatchewan farmers were forced to line up for monthly aid.