Not sure how they picked us for a story, but Dad helped build those elevators in Happy while a young man.
And Stratford is where we live now. It is "Dwayne Plunk", not "Wayne Plunk", by the way, too... ha...
Farming won't end - no matter if the Ogallala dries completely up or not. And the Dust Bowl won't return per se, because farmers out here can now use chemical to keep their ground clean - and rotate the crop fallow one year and in crop the next and be fairly assured of something of a dryland crop.
In other words, we can keep a ground cover on to keep it from ever blowing on the scale it did back in the Dust Bowl days.
And farmers WILL use all the water until it is no longer economically feasible. But every year is a different balancing act of grain prices versus pumping costs (energy), so things go up and down...
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Today's Featured Article - A Lifetime of David Brown - by Samuel Kennedy. I was born in 1950 and reared on my family�s 100 acre farm. It was a fairly typical Northern Ireland farm where the main enterprise was dairying but some pigs, poultry and sheep were also kept. Potatoes were grown for sale and oats were grown to be used for cattle and horse feeding. Up to about 1958 the dairy cows were fed hay with some turnips and after that grass silage was the main winter feed. That same year was the last in which flax was grown on the farm. Flax provided the fibre which w
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