
From the Dust Bowl to New Zealand: Damian Buckley Talks Soil Health and Land Management with Trent Loos
In this episode of Across the Pond with Trent Loos, New Zealand rancher Damian Buckley joins Trent to unpack the history of land management in the American West. They trace how European settlement and disease reshaped Native American land use, and how the tractor and heavy tillage sparked the Dust Bowl's massive dust storms. The pair also critique modern policy, including how Bureau of Land Management rewilding efforts have cut grazing access. Turning to soil health, Trent and Damian explain why cover crops fail when farmers spray them with glyphosate instead of grazing livestock to rebuild organic matter and stop erosion.









