lease grass somewhere else or buy hay, he said.Grasshopper eggs tend to survive better in untilled soil, but that does not stop the grown insects from hopping to cropland and eating crops such as corn, alfalfa, sunflowers, soybeans and sugar beets.In the past couple of years, we have had some crop damage by grasshoppers, especially alfalfa and soy beans, said Dave Boxler, a research technologist i