Two farm stories caught our attention Thursday for the placement of similar news items near the end of the narratives.

In Jonathan Knutson,'s Report: Interest in CRP may drop; Lower payment rates likely, published in the West Central Tribune, we learn in the final paragraph:

CR can be beneficial when it takes marginal land out production. But it also can hurt agricultural communities when large amounts of land go into the program, hurting businesses that rely on sales of ag products such as chemicals and equipment, he said.

CRP stands for "Conservation Reserve Program." We touched on that in Tuesday's post, Pheasants, habitat and cropland: the future for pheasants in South Dakota (and Minnesota).

At National Public Radio, we noticed this paragraph in Dan Charles' report for The Salt, Pesticide Police, Overwhelmed By Dicamba Complaints, Ask EPA For Help:

A lot of farmers don't want to give up those benefits [of spraying dicamba]. Nor does the company Bayer, formerly Monsanto, which sells dicamba herbicide and dicamba-tolerant soybean and cotton seeds. Those products account for billions of dollars in annual revenue. . . .

Read about a dicamba lawsuit in Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting: BASF, Monsanto prepared for complaints before dicamba launch.

Do we detect a theme here? Well, it's one way to feed corporate coffers the world.

Photo: Pheasant habitat.

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