Farmers Agree to Plant Anti-Dust ‘Cover Crops’
An emergency effort to plant temporary crops to keep drought-plagued Klamath basin farmland from turning into a dust bowl has generated interest from more than 120 farmers, federal agriculture officials said Wednesday. The farmers have agreed to plant “cover crops” to thwart wind erosion on 20,000 acres as part of the $2-million effort by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Federal officials also are looking to tame dust problems by erecting wind barriers, planting trees to form wind breaks and heavily mulching fallow farmland.
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