Jane Smith talks to Jamie Mackay on The Country

Extract: I think we need to be very careful that what we're doing is practical, it's scalable, it's cheap, because we’ve had this weird fascination of intensive, expensive interference with our advantage which is actually a resource advantage for New Zealand as our low input pasture raised system. So we've got to be very careful we don't turn ourselves into an EU type of scenario. And I also think that all of these things also can be a bit of a excuse for intensifying agriculture, and that is not the way that we should be going in terms of GE. And I guess all of this again technology that's disguised as something that we need, when actually we need to make sure that we are promoting everything that we do naturally first and foremost, we've done a pretty poor job of that.