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Agriculture
4:00 am
Fri November 23, 2012

Field Notes: Bearing witness to the Dust Bowl

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Residents of Liberal, Kan. pose in gas masks in front of a Red Cross building in 1935. The masks were worn to protect their lungs from fine particles of blowing dust.
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By and Grant Gerlock

This is the latest installment of Harvest Public Media’s Field Notes, in which reporters talk to newsmakers and experts about important issues related to agriculture and food production.

For this edition of Field Notes, Harvest Public Media's Grant Gerlock spoke with Dayton Duncan, who wrote and co-produced the film "The Dust Bowl," which was directed by Ken Burns.

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Under the Microscope
5:36 pm
Thu November 15, 2012

Dust Bowl memories offer present warning

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Credit Photo courtesy kansasmemory.org, Kansas Historical Society
A dust cloud rises over an unspecified town on the southern Plains.
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A corn field withered and broken by drought and wind in Shawnee County, Kan., 1936.
Credit Photo courtesy kansasmemory.org, Kansas Historical Society
Residents of Liberal, Kansas pose in their gas masks in front of a Red Cross building in 1935. The masks were worn to protect their lungs from fine particles of blowing dust.
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By Grant Gerlock

The Dust Bowl of the 1930s left an indelible mark on the Midwest and on history. It is the drought against which all others are measured. And it was a man-made disaster that could still offer lessons today.

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