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MuseRider

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38. I saw dust blowing all the way up in NE Kansas this fall.

Tue Nov 20, 2012, 11:26 AM

Nov 2012

We are a long way from where the worst of the dust bowl occurred but it still was bad up here, my father lived through it and told me stories about it.

I have been worried about all those well kept family farms that have been sold to the corporations.

When I bought my farm I was so pleased to see that it was nicely terraced, I have added a few more to help control the runoff through the pastures when we get good rain (if that ever happens again, fingers crossed). It is a dry grass farm (no irrigation) and I do not have to plow and plant thankfully. I see a lot of family farms that have been working no till for quite some time but they are dwindling every year as they get bought out and the signs go up for Monsanto corn crops. Out come the big machines and here we go again.......

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Had a farmers daughter complaining about the "new", Obama laws to keep dust and erosion down [View all] NNN0LHI Nov 2012 OP

Suggest she watch the PBS special on the dust bowl magical thyme Nov 2012 #1

are you sure that there are no new regs though? brokechris Nov 2012 #2

Sounds like the opening to a joke: PCIntern Nov 2012 #3

...talk about how stupid their daughter was? A HERETIC I AM Nov 2012 #11

LOL! Dark n Stormy Knight Nov 2012 #43

I was halfway expecting a joke too n/t Fumesucker Nov 2012 #13

Guess someone should buy ms. stupid a box of rocks and a copy of Grapes of Wrath, but then what lonestarnot Nov 2012 #4

No, not surprised. no_hypocrisy Nov 2012 #5

That's right, and tumbrel rides were all the rage among the nobles of France Fumesucker Nov 2012 #15

LMAO.... Sekhmets Daughter Nov 2012 #26

I suggest she moves Caretha Nov 2012 #6

i doubt the majority of people in their 20`s know about the dust bowl madrchsod Nov 2012 #7

So with a Republican House, Obama passed these laws all by himself treestar Nov 2012 #8

if you are referring to the new regulations, then the EPA originated them. n/t brokechris Nov 2012 #9

Then there's a reason for them. They don't make them up on a whim. hobbit709 Nov 2012 #10

never said they were on a whim. brokechris Nov 2012 #17

I'm in CA XemaSab Nov 2012 #24

the ones that have come about while Obama brokechris Nov 2012 #25

Come join us in the Environment/Energy forum XemaSab Nov 2012 #27

I didn't even know one existed!! neat! brokechris Nov 2012 #31

This message was self-deleted by its author brokechris Nov 2012 #12

contour plowing and other soil conservation measures. hobbit709 Nov 2012 #14

I've seen it--but the new air quality regs are not brokechris Nov 2012 #18

I was in California Sekhmets Daughter Nov 2012 #28

when I was in Fl, they had a huge storm brokechris Nov 2012 #32

Yep. Sekhmets Daughter Nov 2012 #35

Now, THAT's a flashback! Jackpine Radical Nov 2012 #34

Regulations are only about how the law will be carried out treestar Nov 2012 #19

exactly--but the new regs do change things for people brokechris Nov 2012 #20

Sadly, not unbelievable at all. n/t Egalitarian Thug Nov 2012 #16

An excellent book on this topic yesphan Nov 2012 #21

That book was quite the read XemaSab Nov 2012 #22

Burns' film was heavily based on Egan's book Retrograde Nov 2012 #40

Why is this a bad law? Those dust storms on the Plains used to kill people. Arkana Nov 2012 #23

Dust Bowl could happen again deerheadgal Nov 2012 #29

I saw dust blowing all the way up in NE Kansas this fall. MuseRider Nov 2012 #38

Guess what, she probably didn't Google it. Lasher Nov 2012 #30

That's the thing that I don't understand. I hear this rw crap at work and it just takes a few Arkansas Granny Nov 2012 #36

Willful is indeed the word for it. Mariana Nov 2012 #39

They are zealots. Lasher Nov 2012 #41

It's also very easy to find RW sources that support the BS. Which links do you think RWers will Dark n Stormy Knight Nov 2012 #44

I watched for years now lapfog_1 Nov 2012 #33

Look at how many posts you have.....Congrats...n/t monmouth3 Nov 2012 #37

Where I live we still have a lot of run-down trailers with trash all over their front yard aandegoons Nov 2012 #42

Afraid he's going to take away their trash? Dark n Stormy Knight Nov 2012 #45