The Country

We announce the winner of our Rabobank Good Deeds competition and we’ve selected Beaconsfield Primary School in South Canterbury as the winner of the $5k and day’s labour from Rabobank and The Country to resurrect a wetland. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

FMG warns - “look out El Niño is coming” - and has some advice to help farmers mitigate potential damage from wind and wildfire. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talk to Shayne Currie, Sir John Key, Ian Kirkpatrick, Phil Duncan, Adam Thompson and Rhys Roberts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The NZ Herald’s editor at large is on a two-week road trip (with the VW EV ID.5), to gauge the mood of the nation and meet everyday and notable Kiwis making a difference in their communities and the wider world. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The former Prime Minister joins us on the show today to talk farming, footy, the Chinese economy and Winston Peters. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Patron of New Zealand Rugby (NZR), and All Blacks legend, shares his frustration at the direction our national game is heading in. Plus, we talk about weather and track conditions in his home farming patch of Poverty Bay. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Monday’s resident weather expert comments on some wet and windy stuff up north, with power cuts and flooding already happening in Northland. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today’s panel features two entrepreneurial leaders in agriculture, both recent finalists in the Zanda McDonald Awards. Nominations for the 2024 Awards close tomorrow. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Andrew Hoggard, Grant McCallum, Nadia Lim, Carlos Bagrie, Sally Rae, Myfanwy Alexander, Ben Picton, and Bruce Cameron. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Chris Brandolino, Shane McManaway, Brian Dickison, Kevin "Smiley" Barrett, Stu Duncan and Stu Loe. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We catch up with a well-known agribusiness leader, entrepreneur, Wairarapa farmer and founder and chair of the Zanda McDonald Award (with entries closing on October 31) which is now in its 10th year. And what's with the 11ha of Chrysanthemums? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's our final episode of Farmside Footy with our man on the ground on the ground in Paris, two days out from the RWC Final against the Springboks. Earlier this morning we caught up the Sir Tristram of All Black rugby! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Forget the Bledisloe Cup,  the country’s most talented sheepdogs are set to take on their Aussie counterparts in the 2023 Purina PRO PLAN Trans-Tasman Sheep Dog Trial Test Series today and tomorrow, with the Kiwi team determined to win back the prestigious Wayleggo Cup – having won 21 of the 35 matches since the competition’s inception in 1985. We talk to a very proud Southland farmer on debut for...

NIWA's weather guy on a late-season polar blast and the damaging frosts that will follow. Plus is the North Island about to get wet? And what's happened to the El Nino drought? Is it fake news? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today's panel wraps the show as we talk weather, farming, footy and golf (with the Emerson's Country Open due to tee off in Wedderburn on Nov 10). 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 Richard McIntyre, Bruce Cameron, Stephen Thomson and Chris Russell. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We catch up with the Federated Farmers Dairy Chair who's just back from the International Dairy Federation world conference in Chicago, where he was looking at how other dairying nations are faring and how they are being supported by their governments. [Parental warning - contains a tall building story]. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We tracked down the Chairman of Zespri in Belgium to talk about promising kiwifruit returns, the Rugby World Cup and historical tourism on the Western Front. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We're joined by the founder of "Surfing for Farmers" which was honoured with the FMG Rural Champion Award at the B+LNZ Awards last week in Christchurch.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our Australian correspondent comments on the El Nino drought, debate in the dairy industry, a 32km hole in a 6000km dingo fence, and the "Big Show" in action at the Cricket World Cup. 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 2, Ro is joined by Troy Hall - an inspirational horticulturalist who turned his life around, only to be electrocuted. Twice. The first shock killed him, the second brought him back to life, but left him engulfed in flames. Here, Troy opens up about his lengthy recovery and new-found...

Jamie Mackay talks to Nadia Lim, Carlos Bagrie, Sally Rae, Myfanwy Alexander, Derek Ramsay, Tom Young, Ben Picton and Phil Duncan. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

New Zealand's power celebrity farming couple are back on our screens, but when can we expect Season 2 of Nadia's Farm ? Today we talk about broken promises as a result of a broken back, organic market gardens, award-winning meat, precious eggs and brewing beer. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We talk to the ODT's award-winning ag journo about her Otago Daily Times - Rural Life " Year of the Farmer" initiative and the winner - a contract milker on a 1000-cow farm in North Otago. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.