My uncles didn’t do the second planting this year because of the cost of diesel and fertilizer. They weren’t willing to bet the farm on Bidenomics.
I’ve noticed a lot of farms around mine also skipped their fall plantings. Some also didn’t bother harvesting certain fields, because the cost of harvesting would’ve been higher than what they expected to get back.
If I recall, the most popular type of wheat is a winter type. With so many farms skipping their fall plantings, the wheat shortages reported last spring might look like a joke compared to the shortages that are coming.
Things are going to get rough!
Did they even have rain? The agriculture experiment station down the road from here looked completely brown this year. It looked like the researchers just gave up on the crops.