Tom J. Bechman
PUTTING MONEY TO GOOD USE: Ann Lankford, Martinsville, Ind., successfully nominated her neighbor, Tracy Hunter, to receive a Bayer grant. The program supports good causes across the country each year. Corn Illustrated: This corn and soybean producer nominated a special project for an award.
Ann Lankford, Martinsville, Ind., had an idea when she heard about Bayer’s America’s Farmers Grow Communities program. She loves monarch butterflies and grows milkweed to support them, and even hatches them in her screened-in back porch each summer. Meanwhile, her neighbors, Tracy and Christina Hunter, operate a honey farm and agritourism business. Why not apply for a grant so the Hunters could plant more milkweed and educate more people about butterflies? It sounded like a win-win.