Drought continues to tighten its grip across the Plains, and it’s forcing farmers in west Texas to make some very difficult decisions this growing season. Depleted soils, along with bleak forecasts ...

Fine-tuning certain sections of the federal farm bill could help prevent the U.S. West from decaying into a Great Depression-era Dust Bowl, according to Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.). The third-term ...

When the wind blows in Prowers County, soil tends to follow. The southeastern Colorado county sits at the heart of what is known as the “Dust Bowl” region, a place where the fear of prairie winds ...

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. -- As the damaging effects of the Midwest's drought pile up on its farms, so do the stresses. There are the withering crops. The looming bank loans. And, sometimes, the ensuing ...

BROOKINGS, S.D. — There’s a new exhibit on display at the South Dakota Agricultural Heritage Museum, taking visitors back in time nearly 100 years for a closer look at life in the state during the ...

Farm with huge dust cloud approaching, dust storm near barn. April 15, 1935. Boise City, Oklahoma.AP350415017—AP1935 Ken Burns has a gift for making documentaries that are not at all about today’s ...

FORT SMITH -- The Museum of History brought color to the Dust Bowl and Great Depression era through a presentation by historian Steve Kite telling the stories of how families survived the disasters.

When the drought and dust storms showed no signs of letting up, many people abandoned their land. Others would have stayed but were forced out when they lost their land in bank foreclosures. In all, ...

Severe drought hits the Midwestern and Southern Plains. As the crops die, the “black blizzards” begin. Dust from the over-plowed and over-grazed land begins to blow. When Franklin Roosevelt takes ...