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I do wonder though how that impacts the soil microbiology…….If you leave it flooded for very long then you’re going to kill off the good soil microbes on a mass scale and heavily shift the system toward anaerobic bacteria……..AI says:

• Bounce-back time: Research indicates that a post-flooding recovery period of about 3 weeks to 3 months allows surviving microbial communities to adapt, stabilize, and return toward normal baseline health. [1, 2]
• Full aerobic restoration: Severely waterlogged soil can take 6 months or longer to fully recover its original aerobic microbial balance

If you zap all of the good microbiology from the soil and it takes 3-6 months to recover then that would heavily impact the quality and type of forage growth produced during that recovery period…..Its part of the same reason you see heavily plowed fields growing the worst of the worst weeds that nothing wants to eat……The soil has been shifted to being heavily bacterially dominated and all of the good microbes have been killed off

This may be why a lot of those big bucks seem to be lacking tine length……