Every seed variety deployed into a new climate zone requires six to twelve months of field trials. At a cost of €200,000 to €350,000 per trial. Repeated dozens of times per year across geographies, soil types, and seasons.
The result is not knowledge. It is a delayed confirmation of what the mathematics already knew. The genome contains the answer. The climate data contains the answer. The distance between them is a matrix multiplication.
The industry built a calendar around a computation problem and charged accordingly. The cost is not a function of biological complexity — it is a function of the absence of the correct mathematical implementation.