Just spent a few days in northwest Kansas. Walk-ins are mowed/hayed) or grazed to dirt. Everything else is at least mowed (don't graze to dirt what you haven't been paid for already). They are baling corn stalks then turning cows out on the residue. What hasn't been mowed or grazed is planted in winter wheat. There are a few birds still hanging on, but summer survival was obviously very poor. It was just too hot and dry. If they don't get moisture this winter, as much exposed ground as there is, we are going to see a dust bowl like the 1930's. I would head north. Things get better the farther north you go.