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Land prices are going up and people say the climate is undergoing a permanent shift.
The Dust Bowl chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, in which the frenzied wheat boom of the Great Plow-Up, followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation.
Video description: The stock market crashed on what came to be called Black Tuesday. In response to the lower wheat prices more wheat was planted.
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