The Country

We catch up with a Cromwell-based orchardist to ask - has he been bribing politicians (and the media) with zero-carbon cherries? He wraps the season and looks at some new initiatives in horticulture. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to David Seymour, Tim Ormrod, Julian Raine, Vanessa Winning, and Phil Duncan. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Act Party leader (and new Assoc. Justice Minister responsible for the Treaty Principles) comments on his Treaty Principles Bill and whether the Nats are going to hang him out to dry on this. Plus, we look at defence spending and an FTA with India. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We introduce the senior vice president of Australia and New Zealand of our new show naming sponsors, Brandt. Plus, we tease a great trip to Chicago. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The former president of Horticulture NZ on a damn good thing for his region - a full Waimea Dam. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The chief executive of Irrigation NZ rejoices in the completion and filling of the Waimea Dam and we ask where we should be building the next one. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Monday’s resident weather expert on how the El Niño drought has failed to eventuate for some in the North Island. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Winston Peters, Ben Picton, Todd McClay, Damien O'Connor, and Claire Taylor. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Claire Taylor, Anna Nelson, Chris Russell, Barry Soper, Emma Poole and Tim Dangen. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We’re joined in the studio by a UK Nuffield Scholar who’s in New Zealand on her study tour looking at rural storytelling. She grew up on a small beef farm on the West Coast of Scotland and has worked for the BBC and Scottish Farmer for over a decade. Today on-air she talks about meeting with Groundswell NZ. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We yarn to a King Country sheep and beef farmer and the newly-announced chair of Silver Fern Farms. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our Australian correspondent joins us on his National Day where nothing but lamb is on the menu. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We welcome back our political correspondent after a long health-induced absence. We talk heart health, Rātana, Winston, Shane, Kiri and Golriz. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We head back to the Dangen Zone with two of New Zealand’s leading young farmers. 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 Dick Tayler, Paul Allison, Ian Kirkpatrick, Farmer Tom Martin, and Stan Meads. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It’s 50 years to the day since a South Canterbury potato grower set the 1974 Commonwealth Games alive with a stunning victory in the 10,000 metres. We look back on one of the great days in New Zealand sport with the man himself and one of New Zealand’s leading sports commentators. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The incumbent All Black 50 years ago, is a former Gisborne farmer, and a great mate of Dick Tayler. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We find our UK farming correspondent in the depths of a stormy British winter, where we talk about agro-forestry, politics and the royal family. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The former All Black great, King Country farmer, and the brother of our greatest All Black, Sir Colin “Pinetree” Meads. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We wrap the show with the man of the hour. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Damien O'Connor, Ben Picton, Paul Paynter, Kit Arkwright, and Dom Jones. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today we find the former Minister of Agriculture and Trade on his trail bike at Molesworth Station, New Zealand’s largest farm, and it’s not long before shots are fired!  We debate whether the government should be in the business of farming and whether former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern was supportive of an FTA with India. Plus, we reflect on Dick Tayler’s great run 50 years on. See omnystudio.c...

Rabobank’s senior market strategist comments on New Zealand’s latest December quarter inflation numbers (4.7 per cent down from 5.6 per cent from the September quarter) and what this might mean for the OCR and mortgage interest rates. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The chief executive of the Yummy Fruit Co. says the Hawke's Bay economy runs on apples, grapes and sheep and they're all facing challenges after Cyclone Gabrielle. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.