Dust storm and trees

[Grain Farmer]

Exactly, it's all farming practices in which ever area you live in.

[chuckChuck]

Oh so you are starting to clue in Grain farmer?

Saving tree rows is called management. Not pushing all the bush and draining wetlands is called management. Planting grass on erodible soils and maintaining residues is management. To name a few.

Did a lightbulb go on? If so, let your manager know!

[Grain Farmer]

So if your soil blows, zero till moron..
organic summerfallow...what could go wrong?
Then they bitch about the wind like you do.
You must be organic with your ideas .
plus plant trees for your great grand kid's.
Bull crap

[Old Cowzilla]

Dad and I planted about 6 miles of trees during the 80's by the local watershed program. I have since tore out 1/2 mile that did not do so good. At the time we worked every thing and seeded with old press drills. Thanks to roundup and new seeding tools things have changed not to mention all the different crops grown. Stubble fields were not blowing here but worked ones were. Skies were dark because dust blows for miles how to you tell which field it came off of. Bean fields can be an issue being stubble cut so short but my son's field was already sown to wheat and held good.

[chuckChuck]

Many Zero till fields did blow significantly in the wind storm contrary to Jethro's ill informed opinion. It depended on residues, previous crop, soil texture, whether there was many trees or shelterbelts.

Local farmers saw clearly which fields blew and which didn't. You can see it in the ditches and field margins. Zero till helps a lot of but it doesn't solve the whole problem because many farmers are cutting their stubble really short and zero till fields often end up looking and acting like tilled fields after seeding.

Soybean, lentils, peas, canola really don't leave as much stubble or residues needed to reduce erosion potential. Cereal stubble faired much better.

Rolling this years pea and lentil fields pulverizes the soil. Pro tilled parts of fields blew because the roller on the protill pulverizes the soil.

Zero till and glyphosate are beneficial but when the land gets dry and there is not much residues left or plants growing erosion will occur.

That's why trees that reduce wind speeds and break the pattern of giant fields have benefits in reducing erosion and improving crop production.