Here’s a useful rundown of some of the problems with our insane agricultural policies, which provide massive, inefficient and unnecessary subsidies to corporate agribusiness at the expense of small farmers and consumers. Even worse, these policies impoverish millions of developing world farmers (as the excellent New York Times series Harvesting Poverty documented), retarding development, destabilizing governments, and harming demand for US exports. Things must change for the good of the country and the world, but it’s not clear how to move reform forward given the power of the farm states in the Senate. Anyone have a creative idea?