The Country

The 1995 Young Farmer of the Year wraps the show! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Bernadette Hunt, Derek Daniell, Chris Hipkins, John Duffy, and Chris Russell. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Federated Farmers Southland is calling for local farmers to boycott Fish & Game and remove fishing access across their land. We catch up with an executive member of Southland Feds to find out why. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We ask one of New Zealand’s leading sheep breeders if the industry has a future. Are farmers climate change heroes rather than villains? And why should farmers support “Growing Future Farmers”? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the interests of political balance, we catch up with the Leader of the Opposition. But are we both wasting our time having this conversation? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We take our monthly look at the state of the market with the team from PGG Wrightson Livestock. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our Australian correspondent comments on the supermarkets going to war over milk, and Aussies not eating their greens. Plus, could owning a car in urban Australia become more problematic? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Christopher Luxon, Nancy Crawshaw, Tessa Chartres, Tom Young, and Bryce McKenzie. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We catch up with the Prime Minister on the eve of the East Asia Summit in Laos, to discuss boats, banks, the OCR, a CGT, and how to pay for all the infrastructure we are fast-tracking. Plus is he telling porkies about the cost of the new Dunedin hospital? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We catch up with the 2024 Zanda McDonald Award winners on their Australian mentoring trip. The New Zealand winner, Nancy Crawshaw, 27, is an extension officer for Angus Australia (based in New Zealand), and the Australian winner Tessa Chartres, 32, is the general manager of business development at Murray Irrigation. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Affco’s national livestock manager was right when he foreshadowed the closure of meat processing plants and the loss of hundreds of jobs due to shrinking livestock numbers. But is there more to come for the troubled sheep meat industry? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Carrying on from yesterday’s show, we catch up again with one of the co-founders of Groundswell for a history lesson on Waikirikiri Rugby Club’s legendary “shindig” at West Otago’s Kelso Hall that kept going despite the “big flood” of 1978. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Cameron Bagrie, John McOviney, Karen Morrish, Vanessa Winning, and Bryce McKenzie. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We ask an independent economist whether the OCR will drop by 25 or 50 basis points tomorrow. We also discuss the exchange rate and why he reckons a capital gains tax is a good idea. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The chief executive of Steelfort is also a Waitomo sheep and beef farmer. And his farm has certainly been in the news with the sighting of the Marakopa fugitive Tom Phillips and his three children. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We catch up with one of the co-founders of Groundswell - just back from Sri Lanka and the Senior World Cup of Indoor Cricket - and ask what he was doing dodging the hard yards during the floods on his West Otago farm. Plus we talk about the animal activists hounding flood-affected farmers. {Part 2 tomorrow} See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The chief executive of Apples and Pears NZ comments on the good prospects for the pip fruit industry. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The chief executive of Irrigation NZ expands on the fast-tracking of the Ruataniwha Dam project. But are there other dams on the fast-track list? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to David Seymour, Nigel Woodhead, Blair McLean, Dr Jacqueline Rowarth, and Phil Duncan. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What is it about New Zealand and boats? It seems the America’s Cup ones are the only decent ones we’ve got. So we talk boats, banks, Wednesday’s OCR, and the prospect of CGT under the current Coalition Government. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We ask the 2017 Young Farmer of the Year how he’s fared with the 2024 floods on his South Otago farm. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our wine man in Blenheim says there are no sour grapes when it comes to handing over the Ranfurly Shield to Taranaki. Plus, he cheers up the farming fraternity with six “fun packs”. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

One of New Zealand’s leading primary sector academics agrees with Shane Jones that it’s “too hard to produce food in New Zealand”. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Monday’s weather guy from WeatherWatch doesn’t see an immediate change in the tempestuous spring conditions. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Jo Luxton, Farmer Tom Martin, Christopher Luxon, Chris Russell, and Shane Jones. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.