The Country

Federated Farmers' domestic commerce and competition spokesperson says farmers are not happy with rural bankers and are feeling excessive and undue pressure from their lenders. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

One of New Zealand's leading farming academics looks at the Great Kiwi Christmas Survey (ham v lamb and your favourite Christmas movie) and how long it takes to repatriate forestry land back to good productive pasture for food production. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The managing director of tech company Techion talks about his 30 years as an agricultural entrepreneur and what a future with AI looks like for farming and rural communities. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Todd McClay, Farmer Tom Martin, Hunter McGregor, Emma Higgins, and Winston Peters. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Neil Barnes, Nigel Walsh, Kirstin Chittock, Chris Brandolino, Rowland Smith, Stu Loe and Stu Duncan. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We talk to two rugby coaches, with real dinkum rural backgrounds, who were awarded the top gongs last night at the NZ Rugby Awards. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We catch up with the Hokonui breakfast host who is watching Megan Whitehead having a crack at Sacha Bond's eight-hour solo lamb record of 601 (and two-stand record with her cousin Hannah McColl). She reckons that, at the halfway mark, they look like they will smash the old records.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

As NIWA's weather guy promised, El Niño is starting to rear its festive head, a Christmas present some farmers will welcome and others not! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We chat to a Hawke’s Bay farmer, who is also arguably the world’s best shearer. Today his wife Ingrid's two-stand, mother and daughter, world shearing record is about to be obliterated in an Eastern Southland woolshed. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today's farmer panel chews the fat down on the farm for the final time in 2023. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Dave Letele, Emma Higgins, Colin Hickey, Peter Newbold, and Chris Russell. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We chat live with one of the co-hosts from “The Big Feed’ – a rural telethon in support of farmer charity Meat the Need. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rabobank's Senior Ag Analyst comments on the bank’s latest Rural Confidence Survey - hot off the press - which sees farmer confidence rebounding strongly from a record low, driven by improved dairy farmer sentiment.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We catch up with a North Waikato dairy farmer, who is thumbing his way from  Auckland to Lincoln University to raise money, meat and milk for The Big Feed. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The GM Real Estate at PGG Wrightson says 2023 has been a tough year, in his final monthly look at the rural property market. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We ask our Australian correspondent why our sheep meat industry is suffering at their hands. Plus, we look at the fashion battle of the mining giants. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Winston Peters, Tom Martin, David Foote, Hunter McGregor, and Megan Whitehead. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We talk to the Acting Prime Minster about being King for a day, his War on Woke and his battle with a “bigoted, leftie shill”, and why getting to India is so important for New Zealand farmers. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our UK farming correspondent on protecting top farmland from housing (and golf courses), winter farming conditions, Rishi Sunak and the Christmas No. 1. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The chairman of the Australian Cattlemen’s Association is in New Zealand looking at Marlborough oysters. We talk about the Rugby World Cup, Eddie Jones, Zanda McDonald Award finalists and FTAs with India and the EU. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our Shanghai-based correspondent talks about a country of climatic extremes, and a slow economy. He also hands out his awards for New Zealand companies on the ground in China. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Southland shearer is having a crack at Sacha Bond’s eight-hour solo lamb record of 601 (and attempting the two-stand record with her cousin Hannah McColl) just outside of Gore on Friday. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Todd McClay, Charles Taituha, Cameron Bagrie, and Mike Casey. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Minister of Agriculture and Trade talks about getting his feet under his new ministerial desk, the 100-day plan, and the heavy lifting ahead for 2024 in his portfolio. Plus, we look at getting on a plane to India, reinstating the live animal export trade and whether he’s enjoying Winston’s “War on Woke”. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Agribusiness professional who’s an adviser contracted to Beef+Lamb NZ and several Maori entities - what was he doing at Cop28? Was the climate change talkfest a waste of time and money for the representatives there from New Zealand agriculture? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.