Analyze how a more advanced agricultural method might have helped prevent the disaster described in the following scenario. Situation: During the Great Depression, one factor that led to the financial breakdown across the country was the so-called Dust Bowl. States such as Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska experienced extreme erosion after overfarming occurred. The soil in this vast region deteriorated from rich, arable land to an area more like the Sahara Desert, with large drifts of sand blowing across the continent.