slovenska dust bowl
Polícia SR
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Robert Dohál
https://www.facebook.com/100013687248262/posts/1685548881911337/Last Saturday in Hohenau we experienced a rare natural phenomenon here. There comes a dust storm A strong northwest wind blew more and more waves of dust from the fields northwest of the town. Actually, until now, this would have been a non-exceptional report about a natural phenomenon of a special kind. Just need to tighten things up a bit and correct the report a bit.
So the actual truth is this:
The dust of the fields was soil. Its finest, most valuable particles of mostly organic origin were blown by the wind in thousands of tons from the surrounding fields. A small dust bowl, so to speak (windosion in the American Great Plains in the 1930s). But the truth still looks a little different. In fact, the cause was not the wind, but irresponsible farmers who had to "prepare the soil for sowing" a few days earlier. Bare floors with a broken soil structure are unable to withstand wind or water erosion. Of course, when "preparing the soil", the farmers did not know what was coming their way. But the truth is, they should have always had to expect this situation and maintain the land in a way that prevents such a scenario. This is called "Regenerative Farming", its base is direct sowing into unprepared soil - No till. A number of farmers here in the cadaster are doing ecological farming. This means they are getting rid of artificial fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides. So the soil should be healthy. But healthy soil does not erode. So maybe we should reconsider what organic farming really is.
Back to yesterday again though And am also a farmer I ran a company in Slovakia and that’s where I come from too. There were "dust storms" there yesterday as well. Every time something like this happens, people rant about communism, about the kolchos, about the large land areas, about the "agrarbarons" who took over and privatized the original kolchoses and are destroying the Slovak landscape. When I got in my car yesterday and drove through the Hohenau and Rabensburg areas, I found that everything is the same. The same erosion in Austria as in Slovakia. It doesn't matter at all who owns the farm and the land and how big the plots are, it only matters whether they are managed by a well educated farmer or a fool who doesn't want to educate himself and change something about his agriculture.
And one more thing I figured out. 90% of the dust came down to the village from a huge plot that I believe is managed by Lichtenstein. So not the Liechtenstein family personally, but some administrator the family employs there. So even the top companies employ stupid and uneducated managers, who are convinced that the main criterion for their success is high returns, and who don't care if the country still produces anything in 50 years. The Principality of Liechtenstein should know something about this. And if they don't know how to do it, I'm happy to advise them.