Good question yeoman, I found out just yesterday, so I haven't come close to figuring it all out.. I really enjoyed having this guy, as he converted a former pasture rife with johnson grass into something tillable. Plus the soybeans were a treat to the deer -some very nicebucks would show up in the beans in August, and Ienjoyed watching them with a telescope from my living room. I surely do not want to add 10 acres to my bushhogging chores, and the expense and time of planting soybeans myself are not appealing either. I let another neighbor grow hay on 10A, and it would be easy just to let him takethe field or part ofitover. I have severaloptions andtime to think about it.
The days of the small So. MD farmer are numbered - as these guys age and retire, more land gets converted over to housing or left fallow only to grow up in sweetgum and tree-of-heaven...
-fsh