We still have some grass in the black land parts but the sandy land is toast. My husband raises bucking stock, not beef cattle and his herd is relatively small (maybe 150 just guessing) so he hasn’t had to start feeding to keep them alive (yet). He spent a lot of money on grass seed, fertilizer and weed killer earlier this year and that has been pretty much a loss.
My father planted $9,000 of foundation seed last fall and did not harvest a grain of seed wheat. That is just seed cost. He had about 400 acres of that variety. We have about 3 sections of farm. Not a single acre was harvested. Collected the insurance, but it did little more than recover seed cost.
Some of our large customers were able to harvest from earlier planting than ours, and we let them use our storage bins to put theirs up. We have enough left over from previous year to plan ours, except for the foundation seed.
The seed licensing issue is an absolute mine field. Still not sure it is worth the effort, but it is the law.
Too many rules, make everything less competitive and more expensive. This is what big government does to us. Life should be simple and honest. It is neither.