I paved over a piece of partly grown wheat, but now it is just wheat growing through the stone. I assume that this is a bug. I also saw this on someone's house.
Not sure if a bug or a feature, but no, crops aren't destroyed when you pave over them. The only way to remove is to harvest. Some people have used this to make "vine covered" walls and such.
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