Hypothetical farming legal question...?

Suppose a farmer planted 1,000 acres of corn.

The cost of the corn seed for the entire 1,000 acres was $500

Fuel costs for equipment do plant was $750

Other preparatory chemicals cost $250

Capital depreciation for equipment used in the time period was $2,500

Now assume that the rains came at the perfect times and besides the normal herbicides that he would need to apply, he would have to do very little and he was on track to yield a nice crop worth $50,000

Now lets say a competing farmer nearby plowed his entire field up one night. This was just before the corn was about to sprout but it ruined his entire crop.

Should the farmer collect...

A) The cost of seed and act of planting the crop ($4,000)

B) The cost of the seed only ($500)

C) The cost of what the crop would have been worth ($50,000)

D) The cost of everything ($54,000)

E) None of the above

There is no right or wrong answer, please provide your rational for the anwer you pick and then check back after I have chosen the best answer for a follow up question.