Your problem there is that your soil is dead. You're going to need to grow grass and clover there for a couple of years, and get some cows on it.<p>Without livestock farming, this is what happens.
Agrivoltaics could save both the wheat and the farms.<p>The wheat, because partial sun reduces evaporation and heat stress; and the farm, because they provide a revenue stream year-round.<p>A good configuration for wheat is bifacial panels erected as simple fence-rows running N-S, catching morning and afternoon sun, widely enough separated for equipment to fit between.<p>It is said that wheat, like many grains and <i>unlike</i> most vegetables, yields a bit less with less sun. While strictly true under ideal circumstances, circumstances are rarely ideal. When they are, you can afford a dip. When not, you likely don't get one.
Y'all realize its a desert out there, don't you? I used to live out there. Not Lane County, but its neighbor, Scott County. Google "Great American Desert". Its dry. Its hot. The wind blows to the point that 30 MPH is considered a "breeze". Nothing grows without irrigation. The Ogallala Aquifer is being emptied, just like Lake Mead and every other source of water.
Artfully arranged photos. Look at the rest of the field, in the background: they got a crop out of most of that.<p>"estimates that more than one of every ten wheat fields in Kansas will be abandoned," ... that could be one producer letting fields go fallow? wouldn't they put in plowdown soybean as a green manure once the wheat was declared "failed"? Or is there some insurance term that would prevent that?