Quite interesting. But a few comments. 

The author speaks glowingly about corporate and high tech agriculture, which means more capital investment, more pesticides and artificial fertilizers, more genetic modification, huge feedlots and animal waste lagoons threatening the environment, more antiobiotics and weird feed choices for animals. All of this does not even begin to address some very real problems in first world agriculture, especially the fact that massive large scale agriculture is energy and C02 intensive, despoils the soil, and pays no attention to the variances in the soil and growing conditions--all things that smaller scale agriculture might address. So i dont buy in to the proposal.

The second issue, global warming. Right now, nothing much is being done. If we pass the tipping point, as seems likely, the impact on Canadian agriculture could be devastating. Not dealing with this issue is like avoiding the elephant in the room.

Interesting in part. But not in whole.