I've known pastures where farmers have lost winter feed because of hay fires.

This looks to be a relatively inexpensive, potentially important intervention that farmers can do; hay is lot cheaper than oats.

Illinois corn farmers are the Nation's number two exporter of feed grains.

[In 2001, the Utahn launched Mountain Sunrise Feed in Enterprise to ship compressed hay and alfalfa to dairy cooperatives across Asia. His newfound customers planned to inspect the feed on a visit that September, but the attacks kept them from traveling and they turned to more familiar suppliers instead.] It struck us very hard and just about put us under, ... We still haven't fully recovered, but we'll make it.

Grass is greener in other pastures

Pastures and winter grains are benefiting from recent soil moisture improvements on the northern and central Plains, but windy, dusty, dry conditions are causing renewed crop deterioration on the southern High Plains.