[anjel]

The farmer may look disapointed in the photos, but with gov't FCIP crop insurance, he gets paid whether his crop grows or not.

So this is a negative event for the federal budget and taxpayers, but wheat farmers, get paid 85-90% of what the crop would have been worth at market, in the event of crop failures like this. https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R46686

I believe this kind of risk mitigation is available to AgriCorps as well as individual farmers for all the major crops like cotton, soy etc.