Farming is a competition between pests, weather, consumer demands for perfect looking fruit, prices undercut by places with less regulation (or more subsidies),

Farming is a competition between pests, weather, consumer demands for perfect looking fruit, prices undercut by places with less regulation (or more subsidies), and your actual skill in caring for the farm. It’s a real gamble every year for farmers. This at baseline would raise the costs of food as you’d get less crops per acre or end up seeing retailers go for vendors abroad who still use the chemical and made a larger crop.