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Nicky Hyslop joins Dom for a look at the damning deep dive that Beef & Lamb NZ has delivered on the government's emissions pricing proposal.

On today's show, we get a weather update from Phil Duncan at Weatherwatch, and Chloe Butcher-Herries has been crowned the 2022 Ahuwhenua Young Maori Award Winner for sheep and beef. and she joins Dom on the show to share her good news.

Chloe Butcher-Herries has been crowned the 2022 Ahuwhenua Young Maori Award Winner for sheep and beef. The 30-year-old is an Assistant Farm Manager at Newstead Farms in Puketapu, Napier, and joins Dom on the show to share her good news.

Dom caught up with Phil Duncan from Weatherwatch for a much needed update.

On today’s episode;  We catch up with NZ Merino CEO John Braknridge…  We chat politics with NZ First leader Winston Peters, and we look at a new regenerative farming initiative with the CEO of Atkins Ranch, Pat Maher.

We take a look at the week in rural newspapers with Tony Leggett, the man behind Country Wide and NZ Dairy Exporter.   

We tied Winston Peters down to ask him all about pricing agricultural emissions, the big issues he wants to address and where we're going backwards as a country. 

LIC has published a sustainability report which states the goal of being both sustainable and profitable is well within reach for NZ dairy farmers, so we spoke to Chief Executive David Chin. 

The New Zealand Merino Company Limited has announced its financial results for the year to June, rounding off the year with record volumes of bales sold and earnings…  To tell us more we’re joined now by CEO John Brakenridge…

Hunters are being warned not to relocate feral animals and risk spreading tuberculosis…  OSPRI has eradicated TB in possums from large parts of the country, but introducing and releasing TB-infected pigs to that area can undo all the hard work…  OSPRI North Island Regional Partner Phil Dawson join us now to discuss this further...

On this episode…   We catch up with Groundswell NZ Co-founder Bryce McKenzie following Thursday’s tractor protest…  We talk with Supie founder Sarah Balle…  And we this week’s View From the Top Paddock features the former Minister for Primary Industries, Nathan Guy…

We caught up with Bryce McKenzie to debrief on Groundswell NZ’s tractor protests this week and get his reaction to the Minister of Agriculture comments calling them "embarrassing."   

This week's View From the Top Paddock with Nathan Guy, the Chairperson of both the Meat Industry Association and ApiNZ. 

Ok, time now to take a look at the rural real estate market, and we do that with the GM of Rural at Property Brokers, Conrad Wilkshire.

Time now to reflect on the last week in rural news with the REX team.

We catch up with Supie founder Sarah Balle, who aims to create a better and fairer grocery alternative and discuss how the ag emissions pricing plan will increase inequality. 

Groundswell NZ Co-Founders Bryce McKenzie & Laurie Paterson met Dom in Dunedin during Thursday's tractor protests for an on-the-ground interview as the protest happened, and REX host and former Sports broadcaster Hamish McKay joined Dom for their weekly sports wrap.

REX host and former Sports broadcaster Hamish McKay joined Dom for their weekly sports wrap.

Groundswell NZ Co-Founders Bryce McKenzie & Laurie Paterson met Dom in Dunedin during Thursday's tractor protests for an on-the-ground interview as the protest happened.

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.