Which reason best shows why the soil conservation act was passed? question 4 options: congress was concerned that farmers were not cultivating enough land and this act allowed farmers to double the amount of land that they were allowed to plant on farmers were collecting and selling their soil to farmers in mexico for a great profit poor plowing methods led to loose topsoil creating massive dust storms during the dust bowl water use in the midwest caused much of the soil to be washed off in to irrigation wells