Reason TV looks at the local food movement, and why it’s better to get a lot of your food from far away.

Former Senator John Sununu writes in the Boston Globe on how the fight to regulate organic food artificially concentrates the industry into the hands of a few agribusiness giants.

Foster’s credits Senator Jeanne Shaheen, and her staff, for speaking out against sugar subsidies on Valentine’s Day.

I’m a recent convert to asparagus. Never liked the bitter, floppy spears that come from too much boiling. Having found a great recipe that involves coating them lightly in peanut oil and putting them under the broiler, with or without a protective coating of pork product, I am not an ardent defender of asparagus. Portsmouth Herald Managing Editor Rick Fabrizio has criticized the massive asparagus subsidies that American taxpayers are providing to growers of this delicious vegetable, which has drawn heat from those who receive the subsidy. Little did we know that mighty asparagus is not only providing a valuable source of Vitamin D, but also helping us win the War on Drugs.

A hattip to Charlie Arlinghaus, who pointed out on of the most short-sighted examples of bureaucratic meddling, this time in Maine. It seems that Shaw’s wanted to entice repeat customers with free milk, but the nanny-state busy bodies in Augusta decided that Maine consumers aren’t paying enough.

The Nashua Telegraph features an AP article on the latest attempt to reform America’s disastrous farm policy, and the long odds of any real change.