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REX Sunday July 2nd 01.07.2023 1:02:50 ↓

On today’s episode…  We catch up with the winner of this year’s Ahuwhenua Young Maori Grower Award…  We profile one of the country’s best-known vets…  And we talk to an award-winning scientist turned farmer.

REX Saturday July 1st 30.06.2023 1:04:08 ↓

On today’s episode…   We talk bulls with Max Tweedie…  We speak to the entrepreneur behind 'A Lady Butcher'…  And we profile 'Good George' whisky curator Kate Gibson.

Cam Ravenwood: Farmer at Fernglen, Wairarapa 30.06.2023 13:26 ↓

Fernglen is a hill-country Wairarapa farm with something a bit different on the flats…  There’s a milking shed and twelve hundred friendly milking ewes…  Cam Ravenwood is one of the 5-strong family team that works in the business…  He joins us now.

Ian Knowles: Scientist and Farmer, Glenmark Springs North Canterbury 30.06.2023 11:44 ↓

Ian Knowles has had a different start into farming than most. ..  He trained and worked in ag science and, well he’s never shaken off that interest in research…  His farm in Waipara, North Canterbury, is one big petri dish…  And for his endeavours, he’s been awarded the Ballance Farm Environment Award for Canterbury…  He joins us now.

Grace Rehu: Ahuwhenua Young Māori Grower Trophy Winner 2023 30.06.2023 11:28 ↓

Grace Rehu is only 21 but has taken away a very big prize in Maori horticulture - she’s the 2023 winner of the Ahuwhenua Young MāoriGrower Trophy…  The awards event was attended by 900 people…   She’s based in Hastings, where she works for Turners and Growers, and she joins us now.

Ginny Dodunski: Wormwise Programme Manager 30.06.2023 14:36 ↓

Ginny Dodunski is one of NZ’s best-known vets, especially now, through her role with Wormwise…  Whether she likes it or not she’s the face of worms for sheep and beef farms; the parasite spokesperson if you like. She joins us today from the NZ Veterinary Conference.

View From the Top Paddock: Katie Milne 30.06.2023 12:45 ↓

Alright, time for this week’s View From the Top Paddock, and this week we head over to the West Coast to catch up with former Fed Farmers President Katie Milne.

Kate Gibson: Whisky Curator with Good George Brewing 30.06.2023 11:39 ↓

If you’re a whisky drinker then you’ll enjoy this idea…  Fancy going in shares on a barrel of whisky, choosing the flavours, then watching it age, all the while the value goes up?...  Here to tell us more is Kate Gibson, the Spirit brand manager for Good George Brewing, based in Hamilton, she joins Hamish in the Auckland studios.

Hannah Miller Childs: "A Lady Butcher" Founder 30.06.2023 12:43 ↓

Hannah Miller Childs is a butcher and has a butchery called A Lady Butcher. She also gets to cook what she produces, as she owns the Auckland restaurant Churly’s…  Together with her husband, she’s involved in brewing beer at Behemoth Brewery…  She joins us now.

Max Tweedie: Tutira Farmer 30.06.2023 13:57 ↓

Max Tweedie and his wife Lucy farm at Tutira. Their Hallmark Angus stud is run across Mokara and Pa Hill farms, totalling 990 ha of medium to steep pumice hill country, with some easier land for fodder crops…  It has one of the largest, highly recorded stud herds in the country…we’ve been chatting to Max regularly since Cyclone Gabrielle impacted them hard.  Max joins us again now.

Duncan Macalister: Glenbarr Farms, West Scotland 29.06.2023 20:24 ↓

Today we are heading to a remote part of West Scotland - the Kintyre Peninsula - where Duncan Macalister farms 2000 acres at Glenbarr Farms.