It's ideas like this that just make me laugh out loud at how wrong Congress is:

When a nearby farm can provide fresh produce to a school down the road, both our farmers and our schools benefit. In the upcoming Farm Bill, there is an opportunity to give our farmers a chance to grow more of what is served in our school lunch programs.

Congress should include provisions in the upcoming Farm Bill that build on the Child Nutrition and WIC Reauthorization Act and the Department of Defense Fresh Program to ensure that our children have access to healthy food at school, ideally from local sources. At the same time, we also need to remove barriers to local healthy foods such as changing procurement rules that now sometimes prevent local schools from purchasing from neighboring farmers.
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Improving farmers’ access to local schools, underserved communities, and farmers markets will take an investment from Congress in an infrastructure that builds lasting partnerships among farmers and the local schools and organizations they serve.

Why does a government body thousands of miles away need to get involved in getting two entities that are less than a few miles from each other to do something?  Odds are, because Congress has already put up legal road blocks to prevent this from occurring.  And what is with a national infrastructure for local sharing?  Are you kidding me?!  So instead of just removing said roadblocks, and removing all Congressional regulation, Russ wants to replace one regulation with a different one.  Why?  National government forcing local governments to work with local businesses, and calling that increased local control.  I love when oxymorons simply appear before your eyes.

If local schools and local farms want to work together, great.  But what if they don't?  Why should Washington D.C. force them?  We live under a federal government, not a national government.  Get that through your head.