Some staple crops such as wheat, rice and corn are pollinated by the wind, however many plants don't release their pollen easily and this is where insects, and especially bees, come in.
The effects of vortices can be mitigated through using a tuned mass damper (a device to reduce vibrations) to lessen the movement, as well as designing the structure to disrupt the wind flow.
Bagnold never found that mythical oasis, but he did discover the foundations of Aeolian processes, that's the technical term for how wind shapes land through moving sand and sediment, named for the Greek god of the wind.
I even… my learning was accelerated by trying to do the tricks in the windy parks, too, so it really helped advanced some of my close-up magic skills and stuff like that, and subtly gave me confidence.