- It is time to stop spending $25 million on one strain of ryegrass for which an offshore biotechnology firm might or might not be a co-owner and profit from the leasing rights.
- Kiwis shouldn’t pay leasing fees for ryegrass as all the benefits of mixed pasture species show that duopoly crop systems days are numbered.
- New Zealand has been starved of basic science for 30 years – and it is basic science that identifies the wicked problems that interdisciplinary and applied scientists then go and solve.
- We’re going to invest in basic science for farming. We’re going to look at longer term cycles, and understand how chemical agriculture has been a crutch while our soils have degraded.