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Bee Keepers are calling on Bee-Lovers to learn more about bees and what actions they can take to support the health and resiliance of Bee populations across Aotearoa. To find out more, Dom George caught up with Karin Kos, the CEO of Apiculture NZ.

Groundswell kicked off their "Say No" noncompliance campaign with a protest across Auckland's Harbour Bridge today, to find out more Dom George caught up with Bryce McKenzie to find out what the campaigns all about.

In today's episode, we talk about Local Body elections with Otago Federated Farmers President Mark Patterson, former farmer turned life coach Shane Bird, and we catch up with Donna Kennedy from Riding for the Disabled to mark their 60th birthday.

We talk 'Weather wars' with Phil Duncan on today's show, and we chat to Veronica Shale ahead of the Aotearoa Zero Food waste challenge.

On today's show, we chat with Sustainable Tarras about Christchurch Airports' plan to build a new airport in Central Otago - is it Greenwashing or Climate Positive? and Dom catches up with Ashley O' Connell from the newest young famers club in the country down in Te Anau All thanks to the team at Netspeed - They provide fast, reliable locally supported home phone and broadband packages available t...

On today’s episode;  we catch up with NZ First Leader Winston Peters…  We profile successful dairy enterprise Mosa Farming in Southland…  And we take a look at a new podcast series covering everything from grazing to governance…   And You can also listen to Rural Exchange on TodayFM Saturdays & Sundays 6 - 8am.

This month farmers have the opportunity to access the knowledge of some of the industry’s leading thinkers, in a new podcast series covering everything from grazing to governance…  “The Tune Up” is produced by farm reporting software company, Trev…  And we we’re joined by Treve CEO Scott Townshend to tell us a bit more on the Sunday edition of REX.

Annalize and Stefan Du Plessis came to Aotearoa from South Africa in 2001 with two thousand dollars to their name…  They’re now successful, award winning dairy farmers and share milkers in Dipton, Southland, running two farms under their business Mosa Farming Ltd…  Annalize joined us on the Sunday edition of REX to tell us more…

This week for Yes Minister we’ve managed to rein in the one and only Winston Peters…  The NZ First leader joins us now for his debut on REX! 

Manawatu farmer and author Tim Saunders has followed his first book, This Farming Life, with a new publication; Under A Big Sky…  Dom caught up with him this week, right in the middle of lambing, to talk farming and writing…  

This week’s spotlight on the Agritech sector, in association with AgriTechNZ, is focussing on Snap Information Technologies…  They deal in a high definition image capturing, processing, transmission and analytics system…  To tell us more, we we’re joined now by CEO Chris Rodley on tg=he Sunday edition of REX…

We took a look at what’s making headlines in the rural print media - Managing Editor of NZ Dairy Exporter and Country Wide Tony Leggett joined us on the Sunday edition of REX.

On this episode…   we asses the damage for the top of the South Island following the recent deluge…  We look ahead to the upcoming whitebait season which kicks off in a few days - we give you the lowdown on the new rule changes…  And we talk to someone who works for one the world’s largest food growing businesses…

Agri Academy is changing the game when it comes to training people in the sector - you don’t even have to step foot into a classroom…  Alister Shennan joined us on the Saturday edition or REX to tell us more.

For this week’s View From the Top Paddock, we bid a very warm REX welcome to Nathan Guy, a man whose hat stand is filling up fast, as he wears quite a few different ones these days...

A Northland plant nursery has left scientists scratching their heads, wondering how on earth their seedlings are growing so well…   The Akerama Marae Nursery is cropping Totara seedlings out in weeks, instead of months, and support manager Thelma Horne reckons it all comes down to a bit of TLC, waiata and korero…  She joined us on the Sunday edition of REX to tell us more.

A representative of one of the world’s largest food growing businesses, Western Growers, has been touring New Zealand orchards, farms and hortical operations this week…  Vice President of Innovation at Western Growers, Walt Duflock, is over here as a guest of Callaghan Innovation, and keynote speaker at the apple and pears conference…  He joined us on the Saturday edition of REX.

Well, the Whitebait season is upon us - it kicks off this week on the first of September…  But this year there are a few changes, and to tell us all about them, we were joined by our resident whitebait expert, Richard Davidson from Davo’s Hunting & Fishing on the Saturday edition of REX.

We hear a lot about environmental sustainability in the agricultural sector, along with climate change and extreme weather events…  But what does environmental sustainability actually look like on-farm?...  To talk more about it, we we're joined now by Todd Halliday, who, together with his wife Renee, milk 520 cows at Reporoa.

Dom George and Hamish Mckay look back at the week that was, and look ahead to the All Blacks taking on the 'Argies under the floodlights in Christchurch.. 

Flood waters are beginning to recede on Tasman and Marlborough farms, giving farmers an idea of the amount of damage to their properties... Some farms were left completely underwater and cut off after torrential rain late last week…  The Rai Valley in Marlborough was particularly hard hit when over 1 metre of rain fell in just four days...  And that's where we head now; Dom caught up with Rai Vall...

Hosted by agricultural journalist Dominic George, REX Today focuses inside and outside the farm gate, featuring rural news, detailed weather reports and sport while covering hot on-farm topics as well as some off-farm too.

Ben Speedy, Head of Rural Banking at ASB talks to REX Today’s Dominic George about ASB winning Canstar's inaugural Green Excellence Award for its innovative Rural Sustainability Loan and shares his thoughts on the wider topic of financial sustainability.