Mr. Paul Moore:

In terms of biodiversity, the Senator is absolutely correct. Biodiversity in the farmed landscape will help. That is the way it used to be. There used to be a vegetable factory, Erin Foods, within a mile of where I am farming and we used to grow five or six types of vegetables. It closed in the late 1980s as it could not compete with cheaper imports from abroad. I am a farmer and I know how much I am getting paid, what my father used to get paid and how the price per tonne has not kept up with inflation or anything else. The ideal is diversity in the landscape and lots of small farms or relatively small farms but that is not they way things are going unfortunately, because people want cheap food.