The farmers would go bankrupt and there would be food shortages.
The over fertilization has killed all of the microbes creating a dependancy. This is currently uncorrectable. Farming practices, over fert but mor so continuous cropping, are the main issue and are driven by necessity and the proffit motive. Farming practices will not change without froffit motive or catastrophic requirement.
The most prolific GMO is probably roundup resistant mods. This only serves to make the plant resistant to roundup so you can kill all of the weeds and not the crop. It has absolutly nothing to do with soil condition or nutrients.
It has nothing to do with yields. It is for killing weeds. The difference between dessicating or not, for a lot of crops, is also the difference between harvesting or not. Lentils, for instince, have no set lifespan.
I can only speak for Canada but no farmer here is payed to grow less. They even make you dump your shoes when you are done shovelling. That just sounds like outragious bullshit to me.
Everyone on their own land growing their own food would be ideal.
Is there a semantics nazi kitty in da hause?
Society
Being responsible for your own needs is not individualistic?
Milk and eggs for sure, probably other things, are controlled. Overproduction is on purpose for your benefit. Could you imagine the riots if there was no milk for a week at a time, etc?