The article offers, what appears to me to be, some very sound long range planning to preserve US soils, farming, and food production. The chief obstacle to plans like this is the short term thinking of the profit obsessed corporations under the existing economic system.
Our vision is predicated on the need to end the ecological damage to agricultural land associated with grain production—damage such as soil erosion, poisoning by pesticides, and biodiversity loss. The most cost-effective way to do this and stay fed is to perennialize the landscape.