There's a lot of new ideas going around. Some of them have improved our wellbeing, for example better food production. Jesus understood agriculture and used His knowledge to help us understand His message and our need for Redemption. In this passage, Jesus includes some information about agriculture which is still true today.
MARK 4:3-8 [Jesus speaking]
Hearken; Behold, there went out a sower to sow: And it came to pass, as he sowed, some fell by the way side, and the fowls of the air came and devoured it up. And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth: but when the sun was up, it was scorched; and because it had no root, it withered away. And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit. And other fell on good ground, and did yield fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty, and some sixty, and some an hundred.
That enables more bread and cakes and pies to be made which reduces hunger. There are "other ways of knowing" about growing food, sometimes people waving crystals about or jumping up and down dressed in leaves and a ridiculous mask going
Ungaungaunga-d-d-d-d-d-d-zzzzzzzbt Ibbidy Ibbidy Ibbidy etc., they mostly starve. But what is Redemption?
God explains how after He made the world and created Adam, the first human, something terrible happened. You can read about in
Genesis 2–3 where the outcomes are explained (one of which affected agriculture) and those outcomes still apply today. Jesus came down from Heaven to be murdered to redeem those accept His love from that dreadful outcome. That's not a remedy which would occur to us using human reason and logic BECAUSE the human mind is just a small (and therefore incomplete) part of the universe.
There's a lot of new ideas going around, contradicting God's message. That seeds under different conditions will yield different amounts of grain has not changed. New ideas about agriculture do not contradict Jesus. Other new ideas—causes of disease, the stars, Adam never existed, and so on—DO contradict God, DO contradict Jesus and DO contradict The Bible. That is why it's so important to compare new ideas with reality.
Reality is described in The Bible.