I suppose I’m making assumptions on this farmer’s crop. I appreciate your feedback. I would’ve thought that farmers would diversify their crops to ensure that one bad year doesn’t completely wipe them out.
Crop rotation is mostly done to avoid burning out your land (referred to as soil depletion).
It also helps in insuring against catastrophically low price on one crop or another or one particular pest or another destroying a crop.
But the weather will usually take all of your crops if it is going to be a problem. Unless you have a farm with varying terrain; some higher that the other and subject to flooding.
But there is really nothing a farmer can do to plan for the weather as far as choosing a crop. About all they can do is buy insurance.
The moron likely had crop insurance which mitigated his losses nicely.