Last week I put up a short post on the New York Times, Op-Ed piece written by a farmer who discovered that due to farm payment policies, he couldn’t switch from growing corn to growing vegetables. Now Dan Owens at the Blog for Rural America has picked up on it and done a great job of expanding on the issue…
If getting rid of the planting prohibition increases the production of fruit and vegetable in the Midwest, we could also see another positive benefit: an investment in local/regional food infrastructure. That is a topic near and dear to us; infrastructure investment is perhaps the most important issue facing local and regional foods today.
Read the whole thing HERE.
