In the early 20th century, farmers across the Great Plains harnessed new technology to cash in on a huge demand for wheat. But over-farming led to the removal of prairie grasses which had kept the ...

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 ...

The 51st annual Dust Bowl outdoor basketball tournament wrapped up its nine-day slate Saturday with spectators, players, coaches, volunteers and vendors packed into Kendall-Perkins Park — and, by all ...

Witness one of the strangest and most heartbreaking chapters of 1930s America. These colorized photos capture the surreal ...

It’s been 81 years since iconic Americana singer Woody Guthrie captured hearts with his indelible 1940 album Dust Bowl Ballads. To commemorate the famed musician, several contemporary artists breath ...

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.

Kansas is a wheat-growing powerhouse — usually. Between 1981 and 2020, the state produced almost 360 million bushels of wheat per year, or almost a quarter of the total U.S. output. Russia’s 2022 ...

MULESHOE, Texas — For decades, the Texas Panhandle was green with cotton, corn and wheat. Wells drew a thousand gallons a minute from the seemingly bottomless Ogallala aquifer, allowing farmers to ...

Ninety years ago this month, in the depths of the Great Depression, Congress created a new agency within the U.S. Department of Agriculture to safeguard rural prosperity for future generations: The ...

Climate 101 is a Mashable series that answers provoking and salient questions about Earth’s warming climate. The Dust Bowl heat was terrible. A potent nexus of events — extremely dry, hot weather ...