From what i read on the subject, the money payed to these deer farms for compensation comes from federal tax dollars, the US Dept of Ag. The deer farm near Portage WI that had an extremely high % of CWD was actually bought by the state of Wisconsin in the aftermath! One thing we've learned from deer farms, is that where there is an un-naturally high concentration of deer, too many times there is CWD. I don't blame the DNR for banning baiting in my area, i blame the negligent deer farmer thats located in Eau Claire county 100%. The answer to this issue of spreading CWD is to ban deer farms, in my opinion it should've been done long ago.