Well if you plant wheat you need to harvest it – not quite the pleasing palette of the spring image but an image that show the scale of the operation, those are not small combine harvesters!
I guess that the farms have been consolidated and unlike here an old farmhouse is just not a desirable residence – there are lots of these wrecks scattered around the Palouse. The photography guide to the Palouse marks all the “best” ruins and also the best abandoned tractors. One place charges to photograph their collection of rusty farm equipment.