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nc ks | Pasture brings more than marginal crop ground around here.
I don't know if it would pay to put farmland back to grass, but you could certainly do a grazing rotation of crops to use for more cattle. The big risk with that would be the calf price risk. It would be safer to do it with a cow herd but breeding cattle are very expensive.
Corn, beans and feed can still be grown effectively on about any land as long as it has been in a long term notill rotation. If a guy has been doing a good job of that for a couple decades, the insurance guarantees are plenty good to make it through these consecutive dry and hot years. It has been several years since we have grown farmwide crops that we are happy with, but things aren't so bad.
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The long slow bleed out of farm equity.
