KTAB/KRBC spoke with Taylor County AgriLife Extension Agent Steve Estes to examine some contributing factors of the 1930s Dust Bowl.

In a series of interviews, Tharp and other elderly farmers around the panhandle who lived through it showed a near unanimous reluctance to rule out the possibility of another dust bowl.

F or some, the phrase “Dust Bowl” conjures a place: the Great Plains, but a Great Plains of abandoned homes, ruined lives, dead and dying crops and sand, sand, sand. For others, the phrase ...

Here's why the 1930s Great Plains Dust Bowl drought-disaster hit so hard and lasted so long, and why it could happen again ...

The drought had lasted an agonizing 20 months. The resulting economic chaos had ruined farmers and threatened the businesses, like railroads, that depended on profits from hauling and selling crops.

As Congress works to reauthorize a new Farm Bill, we must remember the lessons of the Dust Bowl and insist on robust funding for USDA conservation programs.

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Dust Bowl farmer drives a tractor with his son near Cland, N.M. (1938). Steinbeck writes: "The tractors came over the roads and into the fields, great crawlers moving like insects, having the ...

Newspaper pages are hung on walls to prevent dust from coming in the Dust Bowl House at Cimarron Heritage Center in Boise City, Oklahoma Thursday, September 22, 2022.

Check out the history of the famous dust bowl in this week's Weather Wonders.

The Dust Bowl, arising from a combination of prolonged drought, heavy winds, and over farming leading to fruitless farmland, and skies blotted out by red and brown dust.