It doesn’t take permaculture levels of agriculture to make it better than it is now. For example insurance companies dictate how and when farmers apply chemica

It doesn’t take permaculture levels of agriculture to make it better than it is now. For example insurance companies dictate how and when farmers apply chemicals, the insurers are influenced by petrochemical companies and are also risk adverse. So while we could do better with more careful and targeted application of chemicals there’s not a huge incentive to at a systemic level. The risk is too high for farmers to try and do something different, because the insurers dictate the terms