It's difficult to answer your question as to what I would have done had I known information earlier. However, I forget the number of years earlier--four or five years--there was that major drought in western Canada and there was a shipment of several rail carloads of hay from eastern Canada to western Canada to address it. And even during that crisis, we were still applying our phytosanitary measures and protecting the area from cereal leaf beetle.
On October 17th, 2006. See this statement in context.