Planning farming failure

"The great virtue of a free market is that it can cause tens of thousands of people to pursue promising technologies and promising ways to reduce carbon at their own expense. The market leads to discovery. Politicians, by contrast, think they know 'the' answer, and they’re always wrong."

~ David R. Henderson, from his post 'The "Shrink the Economy" Act' [for the link to farming here, read Ele Ludemann's roundup: 'More tax, Less Food']