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Ahead of the larger convoys arriving from towns afar, REX Producer Erin Speedy is on the ground at the Christchurch Groundswell Protests, and  People's Coffee Founder Matt Lamason joins us on REX Today to tell us more about his fairtrade apporach to making great coffee.

Most of us love good coffee, and some of us need good coffee - but how often do you think about where your beans come from? People's Coffee in Wellington uses organic Fair Trade beans and was the first food and beverage business to be B-Corp certified in the country. Founder Matt Lamason joins us on REX Today to tell us more.

Ahead of the larger convoys arriving from towns afar, REX Producer Erin Speedy is on the ground at the Christchurch Groundswell Protests.

On today's show, have a market update from Stu Davidson from the NZX, Craig "Wiggy" Wiggins joins Dom for his weekly catch-up, and as REX is putting the spotlight on Rural Women this week, Dom chats to Courtney Altmeier, the ASB Taranaki Regional Manager.

At REX we've got the spotlight on rural women this month and today, we're heading to Taranaki to catch up with ASB Rural Manager, Courtney Altmeier. Courtney grew up on a sheep and beef farm in NSW, studied Ag and accounting at uni, and went on to join the Ag graduate program at CBA in Australia. She met her Taranaki-born and bred partner while traveling and they moved back to Inglewood a couple o...

Time for our weekly catchup with Wiggy - the 2022 Ag Communicator of the Year.

Time now for our look at the markets with Stu Davison from the NZX.

On today's show, we continue our tour around some of the New World Wine Awards 2022 Top 50 with Bruce Taylor from ohu Awatere Valley, and with spring at our doorstep - so is the short but sweet Asparagus season. To get our ear on the ground, Dom caught up with Mike Arnold, an Asparagus Farmer from the bustling metropolis of Chertsey.

With spring at our doorstep - so is the short but sweet Asparagus season. To get our ear on the ground, Dom caught up with Mike Arnold, an Asparagus Farmer from the bustling metropolis of Chertsey.

The New World Wine Awards 2022 top 50 has been announced, and we go through some of the successful vineyards, we're joined by Bruce Taylor from Tohu Awatere Valley Wines.

On today's show, Todd Muller is back in the Ag space as the National Parties Agriculture spokesperson, replacing Barbara Kuriger, he speaks to Dom about his plans after returning to the role, and The New World Wine Awards 2022 top 50 has been announced, and we go through some of the successful vineyards, we're joined by Chris Drummond from Anchorage Family Wines.

The New World Wine Awards 2022 top 50 has been announced, and we go through some of the successful vineyards, we're joined by Chris Drummond from Anchorage Family Wines.

Todd Muller is back in the Ag space as the National Party's Agriculture spokesperson replacing Barbara Kuriger, he speaks to Dom about his plans after returning to the role.

Today for Yes Minister where we ask the questions and they say “yes”. Well mostly they don’t say yes but that would ruin the name of our favorite political segment. 

A few months ago an open letter titled “Waka Adrift” was written and published, criticising the He Waka Eke Noa recommendations…  At least three authors were considered ‘subject matter experts’ sitting on He Waka Eke Noa in its early stages,One of those, Simon Hales, joins us here on REX.

There’s one sector that has been left out of the Government’s emissions pricing plan and they’re probably thanking the high heavens right about now - we’re talking about Pig farming…    Brent Kleiss, NZ Pork CEO joins us on REX.

Kate Cullwick runs Foxtrot home, a sheep and beef farm, an angus stud and mental health initiatives from a Hawke’s Bay kitchen table. She also just won the Emerging Business award at the Rural Women NZ Business Awards. 

Irrigation NZ CEO Vanessa Winning on why we need a national water strategy, and the connection of water as an enabler to climate change mitigation and adaption.

Dairy Women's Network Chair Trish Ranking on the UN International Day of Rural Women, agriculture emissions pricing and why it's a disappointment. 

On today’s episode;  We continue to shine a light on the proposed agricultural pricing proposal with Simon Hales from Waka Adrift…  We get the thoughts and opinions of Irrigation NZ CEO Vanessa Winning…  And this week’s Yes Minister features the Nats

Māori are seriously injured or killed at work at a rate that is 55% higher on average than non Māori, Arne Burgess from WorkSafe told REX. 

Corteva Agriscience has developed a forage brassica portfolio specifically for New Zealand growers so REX caught up with Nicole Morris to hear all about it. 

The ag emissions pricing plan makes for pretty grim reading for iwi and Maori…  Māori land owners have a substantial primary sector asset base, including $8.6 billion in sheep and beef farming, $4.9 billion in dairy farming and $2.6 billion in other agriculture... We’ve got Federation of Maori Authorities representative Hilton Collier on the line to tell us more…

REX hosts Hamish and Bex hash out the week in news dominated by agriculture emissions pricing with REX Today host Dom George.

World Farmers' Organisation Vice President Katie Milne talks about the agriculture emissions pricing plan and the impact it'll have on NZ communities + the world, driving down food production and planting trees instead.