In 2010, it looks like we might see governments and citizens around the world actually start making better choices so that we can all live longer and healthier lives.

"If anything belongs to the public domain," said one farmer at last Friday's antitrust hearing in Ankeny, Iowa, "if anything belongs to the people of the world, it's the crops we grow for food."

Obama is sowing the seeds for that new era of rural prosperity, but it will be up to rural America to bring in the harvest.

Let's take inspiration from the public's interest in the food details on the inaugural web page and the hoopla around the new gardens and build on the momentum. Food policy is a change we can believe in.

No, Gillibrand and Aubertine aren't lobbying for the Corn Refiners Association -- they are pushing for local food.

People want our unhealthy food and agriculture system made healthy. And it doesn't look like we'll be giving up any time soon.

While Obama was in Illinois shoveling sand in bags to hold back the Bush-neglected infrastructure that was crumbling around him McCain was on his way to accept whoops and cheers from oil industry insiders.