This reminds me of an article published a few years ago about farmers in the Texas Panhandle waiting for the clueless bureaucrats at the USDA to give them permission to let their starving cattle graze their wheat land, because their pastures were exhausted.
That’s when it dawned on me that when a landowner has to wait for a Washington bureaucrat to give him permission to feed his own cows on his own wheat, we no longer live in a free country.