[notdownwidems]

Isn't there a section in the Ayn Rand's book, “Atlas Shrugged”, where some government busybody causes a huge famine because he orders the growing of soy instead of wheat?

Yes, but it happened in real life, sadly, not because of a mistake but intentionally, in the Soviet Union and elsewhere. On a side note, I wanted to ask whether your screen name, wintertime has anything to do with HJR Krebs' novel of the same name? Just curious

[wintertime]

nope! :-)