Hmmm, climate change?The plains of SE Colorado are dotted with homesteads abandon in 1930s. Most people who managed to sell their farms sold them at a "profit"
because most of these farms were claimed in the homestead act. Most of them did not sell, just packed up and headed west. I will grant you my grandma's homestead looked about like that before and after 1930, but the dirty 1930s are certainly remembered by her as time of strife and having very little. She was born in 1921, so she remembered it well. Their fields did blow away and their animals did starve. They did not loose it all because they had some irrigated land.
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