If farmers on the Great Plains had practiced crop rotation in the late 1800s and early 1900s,

Crop rotation means growing different crops in succession rather than planting the same crop repeatedly. Different crops use and replenish different soil nutrients, so rotation could have helped the Great Plains soil recover its nutrients. It would not necessarily have prevented the Dust Bowl, which also involved severe drought and wind erosion.

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