The Country

East Coast farmer and bush poet has penned an open letter/plea to Winston Peters to do what’s best for the country, not what’s best for MMP (”Mischievous Mr Peters”). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It’s the race that stops two nations tomorrow. Today we talk to a Wanganui farmer on the ground in Melbourne for The Cup. He was out, then in, then out again for the Great Race. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rabobank’s head of sustainable business development says recent research, in association with food charity KiwiHarvest, shows households now spend an average of $238 a week on food (up 9 per cent from a year ago), and 21 per cent spend more than $300 a week. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Sir John Key, Ian Kirkpatrick, Farmer Tom Martin, Todd Charteris, Hamish Brown, and Jane Smith. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Chris Brandolino, Emma Poole, Tim Dangen, Sandra Matthews, Jeremy Rookes, and Murray Deaker. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

NIWA’s weather guy comments on the just-released three-month outlook. He warns the dry is coming. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We head back to the Dangen Zone. Poole has been working for Fonterra for the last few months, helping to put together a roadshow to educate vets about supporting their farmers through the emissions journey. While Dangen has been busy encouraging our best and brightest students to sample agriculture. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

East Coast sheep and beef farmer and the National Board chairwoman of Rural Women NZ. Today we talk about some of the climatic challenges facing her region and some of the financial challenges currently facing sheep farmers across the country. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It’s time for a dose of bitter cynicism from a former sheep farmer as lamb schedule prices are earlier and further than many expected. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We wrap the week on a lighter note by talking rugby and golf with one of New Zealand’s most beloved sports broadcasters. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Wayne Langford, Jim Hopkins, Chris Russell, and Mike McIntyre. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The president of Federated Farmers shares his concerns over the Reserve Bank's latest financial stability report, and the threat posed to farming. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A rural commentator and raconteur gets serious over the potential shape of the new government, the demise of Three Waters, and why he reckons water metering is a good thing. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our Australian correspondent comments on Eddie Jones walking away from the Wallabies and Aussie farmers walking away from an FTA with the EU. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

With no GDT auction this week and after four positive auctions on the bounce, we ask Jarden's head of derivatives, where the futures markets (and GDT Pulse) are currently at.  And how is domestic and global supply shaping up? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Country's Rowena Duncum is back with a second series of the Farmstrong Live Well, Farm Well podcast. In episode 3, Ro is joined by dairy farmer Abbi Ayre, who shares her tips on juggling farming, family, and voluntary roles in the agriculture industry. Abbi also bravely opens up about two bouts of post-partum psychosis and how she and her new family coped in the aftermath. See omnystudio.com/l...

Jamie Mackay talks to Todd McClay, Jane Smith, Don Fraser, and Todd Clark. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We kick off the show with the man who may be the next Minister of Agriculture. We ponder who his Associate Ministers will be and whether the Nats can find common ground with Act and Winston Peters over emissions pricing. And do we need the unemployment rate to go even higher? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

North Otago farmer, and award-winning environmentalist, has been doing some serious thinking in the tailing pen about sheep in wolves’ clothing. She reckons our biggest enemy right now appears to be the “suffocating compliance narrative from righteous processor companies,” some of our co-ops and all of our banks. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We catch up with a former long-time finance correspondent on The Country for his take on the state of the farming nation. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We interrupt our US farming correspondent’s Halloween celebrations to talk beef, pumpkins and presidents. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Mike Casey, Cameron Bagrie, Tom Martin, Todd Charteris, Hamish Brown, and Karen Williams. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

While it rains in the north, it’s been frosty in the south. Today we yarn to the chief exec of NZ0 (Zero), a Central Otago zero carbon cherry grower, who’s been fighting frosts with South African fans (not the rugby ones)! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We ask an independent economist why the financial numbers are nearly all bad. And will a change of government change the market or just market sentiment? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our UK farming correspondent talks about William Webb Ellis, Wayne Barnes and too much rain for British farmers. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.