The Country

Taranaki dairy farmer whom we haven’t chatted to in a while. We ask him how things are looking on the Coastal Taranaki ranch and what his rugby-playing offspring are up to here and in Japan. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We preview the upcoming West Coast AgFest – back to its usual April position and give away a double pass with one of the event organisers. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rowena Duncum talks to Emma Parsons, Karen Williams, Wayne McLaughlin, and Dan Billing. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fonterra's managing director of strategy and optimisation on the overnight GDT and what we can expect in the first half of 2024. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The former Vice President of Federated Farmers, and Wairarapa farmer, puts on her FMG Supporting Safer Farms hat to talk on-farm safety. She also comments on the Shear4U event as a sponsor (FMG), recipient (Farmstrong) and "in awe" spectator. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rabobank senior analyst takes a look at another positive 2024 Global Dairy Trade auction and the dairy sector in general. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We catch up with a logging transport operator, and part-time Cambridge farmer, who is also the father of IndyCar driver Scott McLaughlin. He talks about the McLaughlin family's farming background. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The organiser (and one of the shearers) of the Shear4U "shearathon" which took place in Wairarapa last weekend. Four shearers spent 24 hours in total on a handpiece - raising six figures for charities, Farmstrong, Gumboot Friday and Rural Support Trust. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rowena Duncum talks to John Brakenridge, Cameron Bagrie, Nigel Woodhead, Jenna Smith, Kristy McGregor, and Ed Taylor. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We catch up with the man who has been described as transforming New Zealand’s Merino industry. Last year he stepped down as chief executive of NZ Merino Company after 27 years in the role. He was also made a New Companion of the NZ Order of Merit in the New Year’s Honours - for services to the New Zealand food and fibre sectors and the Merino industry. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy infor...

The managing director of Bagrie Economics talks about how the economy is shaping up for the first half of 2024 and what we should keep an eye on. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today’s panel consists of a former Young Farmer of the Year, and the chief executive of Pouarua Farms on the Hauraki Plains, who is also a 2024 Nuffield Scholar. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The founder of Shepherdess Magazine (launched the week of lockdown) and The Muster event (Gabrielle casualty last year). Thanks to Manatū Wāhine Ministry for Women, she has six Shepherdess Muster ticket scholarships to offer women living in Tairāwhiti, Ōpōtiki and Wairoa Districts - the scholarships are for women who deserve a weekend away from it all to focus on themselves. See omnystudio.com/lis...

The general manager of Warbirds over Wānaka has a double pass to give away to a lucky listener. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rowena Duncum talks to Phil Duncan, Dr Jacqueline Rowarth, Sir David Fagan, Michael Brooks, and Harriet Bremner-Pinckney. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Monday’s weather forecaster lets us know what’s in store for the rest of the week, as well as what’s happening across the ditch with El Niño. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

One of New Zealand’s leading farming academics has spent her summer in the milking shed thanks to the arrival of Covid on-farm. She talks about the link between food security and tractors on our roads. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It’s a busy summer for world shearing records. A shearing legend updates The Country on the latest action and comments on the bright future for the womens’ competition. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The executive director of the Egg Producer’s Federation of New Zealand looks at the recent furore over $5 colony caged eggs being sold by The Warehouse and the changing goalposts, courtesy of supermarkets. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The 2023 Zanda McDonald Award winner on her next Think Safe Brain farming day coming up on February 8, in Te Anau. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Christopher Luxon, Dr Jacqueline Rowarth, Richard Burke, Jane Smith, Shane McManaway, Doug Avery, and Jim Hopkins. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Emma Poole, Tim Dangen, Wayne Langford, Jim Hopkins, Don Carson, Jeremy Rookes, and Graeme Williams. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It’s our Ag Person of the Year (and her brother). A dynamic young woman who well and truly smashed the grass ceiling in 2023. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Federated Farmers president, and Jamie Mackay’s 2022 Ag Person of the Year,  is close but no cigar this year. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A rural raconteur comes up with his Ag Person of the Year. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.