21.   House and Senate lawmakers crafting a new farm bill today reached a compromise on the Conservation Reserve Program, which pays farmers to idle land for conservation purposes.

22.   If the reservoir drops, some people assume the government would have to pay farmers to lower their irrigation pumps.

23.   If this reminds you of those federal programs that pay farmers not to plant corps, then you are strapped onto the right operating table.

24.   In the past, foreign-aid agencies have tried to stop the erosion by paying local farmers to plant millions of trees.

25.   It pays farmers to grow certain crops.

26.   It pays farmers who plant grass on strips of land along streams.

27.   Kind of like when our politicians pay farmers to forgo growing crops and subsidize wool growers and beekeepers.

28.   On its face, paying farmers to destroy their crops makes little sense.

29.   Opponents countered that the unchecked subsidies paid farmers to overproduce, which contributes to low prices.

30.   One would pay farmers to relinquish their water rights when the water is deemed necessary to save threatened species or to nourish the natural system.