He like most people are fucking up. Not the other mowers, see the dust flying up means you are and have been cutting to short. Raise that blade to around an inch or more above and then cut.
Grass is not for pretty lawns, people have forgotten that grass it so keep your topsoil from blowing away like the dustbowl did back in the day. It keep the soil moist so the ecosystem under the grass does move or die.
If you can see the dirt through the blades of grass then it's to short since the sun can hit the soil and evaporate all the water out of it also.
Better start a garden and keep low scrubs or small non spreading weeds around your plants so when you water the water absorbs and does evaporate or run off either then the roots are stronger. Just keep enough room for harvest and pulling any weeds or even pulling dead leaves off of your vegis.
I loved the video of the people for lazy farmers. They would plant potatoes by placing the potatoes to grow on the surface then cover with hay watering lightly. At harvest time they didn't dig up the potatoes but moved the hay and all the spuds where just under a dusting of soil.
The hay also made it so the soil remained moist but no watering the entire time so they just basically grabbed the spuds they could see like most of them perfect with like 2 hrs work for 500 big spuds no watering or weeding or digging just spreading hay and tossing into a basket at the end.
Grass should be over and inch back to the original subject after mowing, I know guys that it hits an inch and they cut to a 1/2 and their lawn is yellow and you can see the soil from 50 ft away through the crewcut lawn and not the emerald healthy color it should be.
this guy mows
My yard is too wet and too big to cut more than necessary, I give it the lawn equivalent of a military haircut but it looks like a hippy days later. You are right though, the only place I ever see dust (even in high summer) is the tree line.
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