Consumers are buying more and more organic produce. That's probably good for the environment, at least as far as improving biodiversity in the fields (as shown in a 2021 study in Switzerland and this 2022 meta-analysis) but that comes with losses in terms of yields. A 2021 study of growing grain in Sweden found that organic agriculture was 43%-72% as productive as conventional agriculture, and a 2021 meta-analysis concluded that on average, organic yields were about 75-80% of conventional plots. So maybe there are more bugs (good and bad both) in the fields, but it means that more fields will be required to produce the same amount of food. That also means higher prices for consumers, which will matter more for some consumers than others. Seems like the jury's still out.
