This will greatly reduce electricity and fossil fuel usage thereby decreasing costs and increasing profits. Also, sustainable agricultural systems will reduce the number of people involved in managing one farm. Big companies have taken over agricultural production. Big companies may have a hundred or more people making decisions about what should be done with their farms and the corporation. By reducing the size of farms and giving control back to the farmers, costs will greatly decline.
People cost money, and five or six people making decisions is a whole lot cheaper than a hundred.
If sustainable agricultural systems are going to be profitable and widely used, some economic changes are going to have to take place. Market based economics and the politics that regulate them often conflict with the goals of sustainability. Because prices fluctuate so much with agricultural products, many farmers are forced to think in the short term instead of in the long run. If agriculture is going to continue to be an economic activity well into the future, the current economic principles behind agriculture must change. It must be realized that a healthy economy depends on the health of the environment.