According to a 1990 pilot study, water diversions and fallowed farm land reduced farming employment.

The suppliers predict draconian rationing, acre upon acre of fallowed fields and countless lost jobs.

Since these areas tend to dry out, these frogs can be, but are less commonly, found in fallowed agricultural fields, damp woodlands, roadside ditches, and wooded swamps.

This cycle continued in Appalachian Ohio, with small farms increasingly a patchwork of fallowed and marginal corn fields, and the stock of each farm reduced to a couple of penned hogs, chickens in a barnyard, and perhaps a milk cow fed on poor sedge-filled fields.