I came across an old farmer in the early 1980's, who had had his entire wheat crop devastated by a hailstorm, just as it was ready to harvest. He'd lost about $200,000 worth of crop (in 1980 values).
Was it a 'Nimbin' farmer ???
However, perhaps the story goes more like this -
Maybe it was a little Irish farmer who used to use the term 'crop' in an endearing manner to refer to his crop of underlings and managers who have been harvesting great rewards while bleeding the farm dry and providing sub-standard produce as a result. Eventually the Irish farmer would stand down some of his tractor mechanics who reported faulty equipment to the farmer for safety reasons. Even the new state of the art tractors had serviceability issues. Nonetheless, the Irish farmer arrogantly removed the mechanics which further eroded the farms reputation for providing a safe consumable product which was now becoming even more shunned by the consumer.
The CSIRO's position on the matter is yet to be played out fully and the end of the story is yet to be written....
Back to my Jack Daniels.