Many of them have started selling their cattle crop to buy hay. If they're selling them to buy hay, they're not able to pay their other expenses.

I raise corn and cattle and soybeans. Soybeans are a good cash crop.

It started in the bond market which has been selling off aggressively in recent days,

Commercial (crop) agriculture is gone. Most people have cattle and goats.

She once told him about the mysterious trampled-down places found in fields, which the peasants superstitiously called werewolves' nests. Coming across one of these sites, she fell to her knees and buried her face in the flattened yellow grasses, hoping to inhale the odor of a werewolf, a csordásfarkas. As if his scent was a charm. She smelled nothing but hay burned by the afternoon sun.

As a rule of thumb, you should never buy insurance from someone who is selling you something else. These are bad values where significant commissions are being paid out.