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Hamish and Beks caught up with South Island Agricultural Field Days Executive Committee Member and Demonstration Co-ordinator in Kirwee.

Dom George caught up with Silver Fern Farms Director Adrian Ball and Clark Taylor, shareholder relations manager at the South Island Agricultural Field Days earlier this week

Middlehurst Station is a 16, 500 hectare property in Marlborough, owned by the Macdonald family.  Lucy and Sophie, along with the rest of the MacDonald family, have taken a dream of theirs and turned it into a reality, by supplying lamb directly from their high-country station, to the people of New Zealand.   The last couple of weeks have been big ones for the two sisters. They won a Gold medal at...

Geoffrey Young is the newest Director of Beef + Lamb NZ, after being elected to the Southern South Island Ward last week. He is a farmer but has spent a lot of time over the years on the road, travelling to meetings - leading Federated Farmers Southland, and most recently, getting vocal in the Ground Swell choir. Today we are hearing a bit more about the man behind the name. He has tramped the boa...

Beks and Hamish bumped into the National Party Leader at the South Island Ag Field Days.

We have a look at what’s happening in the rural print media alongside the one and only Tony Leggett.

Dog and Country are a North Canterbury-based business that strives to provide the best quality pieces for farmers and their dogs looking for quality products that will last the test of time, Jess Belle is the owner of Dog and Country and was joined by the REX team in her tent at the South Island Ag Field Days.

The CEO of Silver Fern Farms Simon Limmer joins Dom George for a chat about their Annual results, and as it's Friday, we go to our resident sports nut, the former Sports journalist turned REX host Hamish McKay.

The CEO of Silver Fern Farms Simon Limmer joins Dom for a chat about their Annual results.

Well as it's Friday, we go to our resident sports nut, the former Sports journalist turned REX host Hamish McKay.

Stan and Dom have a good catchup in-person at the South Island Agricultural Field Days in Kirwee.

Dom George is down in Kirwee and caught up with Keith Cameron from Lincoln University and CarlAhlfeld from Ravensdown to talk about EcoPond, which won the Agri-Innovation Award at the South Island Agricultural Field Days.

Special Agricultural Trade Envoy Mel Poulton joins Dom today, we have our Property Brokers "Property of the Week", and New Zealand Feijoa Growers Association Manager Ian Turk joins the show as well.

Agritourism is a growing industry worldwide. It's where agriculture and tourism meet, and gives people from both ends of the rural/urban divide the opportunity to connect and provides some much-needed tourism numbers back to rural areas of the country. Marijke Dunselman is the founder of Agritourism NZ and joined Dom for some insight into the ever-growing sectors return to form post-pandemic. And...

Wiggy will be in Kirwee this week at the South Island Ag Fieldays cooking up all sorts of fine meats at the Carters Tyre Service tent, and "Leaning on a gate, and chatting to a mate" - the new initiative spearheaded by Wiggy to get Farmers talking about their mental health.

Let’s kick things off this morning by putting the spotlight on an event taking place in just a matter of days - the South Island Agricultural Field Days at Kirwee, just out of Christchurch, 29th to 31st of March…  And joining us for a preview is Executive Committee Member and Demonstration Co-ordinator Andrew Stewart

With dry conditions hitting the lower South Island over the last few summers we cross to Mark Patterson, who is Otago's Fed Farmers President for his insight into what's happening on the ground. 24-year-old Hugh Jackson was announced as the winner of the Otago Southland FMG Young Farmer of the Year over the weekend, he joins Dom after the big weekend. And Dom crosses the ditch for a catchup with f...

Dom crosses the ditch for a catchup with former farmer turned life coach and good friend of REX Shane Bird.

24-year-old Hugh Jackson was announced as the winner of the Otago Southland FMG Young Farmer of the Year over the weekend, he joins Dom after the big weekend.

With dry conditions hitting the lower South Island over the last few summers we cross to Mark Patterson, who is Otago's Fed Farmers President for his insight into what's happening on the ground.

On today’s episode;  We head across the ditch for a chat with a third generation cropping and sheep farmer…  We catch up with Craigmore Chief Executive Che Charteris…  And we profile the Tarras Collie Club’s Centenary celebrations.

We profile the National Party’s new agriculture spokesperson Todd McClay…  We put the spotlight on a new initiative to help with the Cyclone Gabrielle rebuild…  And we head Stateside to talk to an international business leader who specialises in sustainable food production.