Sorry, I wasn't clear. What I am talking about is the state paying farmers to leave standing grain crops for the ducks to eat (and hunters to shoot them over the crops). This is essentially state sponsored baiting IMHO.

In the Mississippi flyway, the feds have busted private farmers and hunters for this for years. Around 1999-2000, they really ramped up their enforcement of baiting laws, including writing tickets for leaving unharvested crops to hunt over. But here in the Pacific flyway such enforcement does not seem to be as vigorous (or at least the state is exempt).