Washington food fight pits big producers against local farms Read more: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/05/21/94634/washington-food-fight-pits-big.ht

By David Goldstein | McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — There's a food fight under way between Capitol Hill and the Agriculture Department, and it's about small potatoes.

Organic small potatoes.

Big ones, too, as well as peas, beans, beef, poultry and melons. Just about anything, in fact, that's farm-raised and edible.

Three Republican senators have complained that a USDA effort to educate the public about where food comes from slights "conventional farmers who produce the vast majority of our nation's food supply."