The Country

The Country's Rowena Duncum brings you a brand-new Farmstrong-powered series. "Getting Through" looks at what it takes to recover from extreme weather events, by people who've been through it first-hand. In episode 2, Ro is joined by Sarah Donaldson – rural support trust area coordinator for Wairarapa, who also happens to be a trained clinical psychologist and expert in what it takes to get throug...

Jamie Mackay talks to Christopher Luxon, Stephen Guerin, Mavis Mullins, and Jane Smith.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The PM ponders the OCR, tax rates for Trusts, Todd McClay in Abu Dhabi for the WTO meeting, freeing up trade with India, Stuart Nash as a Nat, ending Neil Wagner's career and the plight of Premier House. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The chief executive of PGG Wrightson talks about a disappointing six-month result and today's OCR announcement, saying a further hike in interest rates would be an unwelcome knock for lagging confidence within the rural sector. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The countdown to the Goldens Shears continues. Today it's the matriarch of the Paewai-Mullins shearing dynasty ahead of the record entries at this year’s Golden Shears, which kicks off tomorrow. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

North Otago farmer, and award-winning environmentalist, offers her scorecard on the Government's progress as the 100-day plan deadline looms. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Damien O'Connor, Mark de Lautour, and Farmer Tom Martin. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We ask the former Minister of Agriculture and Trade if he’s going to do a Stuart Nash and drop a few historical truth bombs about the former Labour government. Also, as the world’s trade ministers head to a WTO meeting in Abu Dhabi - we ask if the call for an immediate capping of agricultural subsidies is a pure pipedream. Plus, we go back in time to the 80s when a young Damien O’Connor entered th...

We find the chief executive of Open Country Dairy in the Netherlands, after having attended Gulf Food in Dubai - the largest food show in the world. We look at the real trade opportunities in the Middle East and some of the challenges we’re facing in the UK and Europe. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our UK farming correspondent talks about the end of subsidies (really?), farmer protests and a wet winter for arable farmers. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Richard McIntyre, Derk Daniell, David Seymour, Don Carson, and Phil Duncan. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It’s time to stop talking about a rural banking inquiry and make it happen. So says Federated Farmers’ domestic commerce and competition spokesman. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Is sheep farming buggered? We put the hard question to a man who has spent his lifetime breeding high-performance sheep. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Act Party leader talks about Grant Robertson’s fiscal legacy, Ginny Anderson’s crocodile tears and whether kick-arse Mark Mitchell is the right guy to run the Police. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We ask the PR guy for the NZ Forestry Owners Association if carbon farming is still a thing. Plus, we look at the perils of carbon-only forestry under global warming and climate change. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Monday’s resident weather expert on whether there’s an end in sight for the Big Dry. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Country's Rowena Duncum talks to PGG Wrightson GM of Wool Grant Edwards about the state of the market.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Christopher Luxon, Hunter McGregor, Vanessa Winning, Ben Picton, and Shane Jones. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Mike Petersen, Dr Jacquleine Rowarth, Chris Brandolino, Sam Casey, Damian McKenzie, and Barry Soper. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This man wears, and has worn, many hats in agriculture. He is the current chair of apple exporter Scales, a former chair of Beef + Lamb NZ and a former NZ Special Agricultural Trade Envoy. Today we talk the state of horticulture, sheep and beef, forestry, irrigation (Tukituki) and Hawke's Bay one year on from Gabrielle.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today we find a leading farm academic in Christchurch after she attended the East Coast Farming Expo in Wairoa. We get her recollections of 13 years and one day ago and discuss why we should be getting excited by Null Segregants. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We ask our NIWA Weather Guy about the Big Dry. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the absence of Joe Wheeler, who's in Japan, we pull a skeleton (quite literally) from the closet to talk footy alongside the man wanting to be the All Blacks' No.10. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We wrap a sad week in politics, in more ways than one, as we ponder Efeso Collins and Ginny Anderson. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Shane Jones, Ben Picton, Nathan Guy, and Chris Russell. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.