Dear Editor: Among the many things that matter – Black lives, schoolchildren’s lives, women’s lives – so do sandhill cranes’ lives. I understand farmers’ frustration (“As sandhill cranes ruin crops, Wisconsin weighs chemicals and hunting,” Sept. 18). Couldn’t crop loss due to cranes be included in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Federal Crop Insurance Corporation’s program, at least partially? Couldn’t our state, in its $49 billion budget, find a few hundred thousand to make up the rest of farmers’ $1.6 million annual losses?