The Country

The national sales manager for Volkswagen NZ comments on the successful launch of the new Amarok and the prospects of hybrid utes for the farm. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Monday’s weather expert. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Christopher Luxon, Angus Gidley-Baird, Chris Hipkins, Stacey Waaka, and Shane Jones. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Shane Jones, Stu Duncan, Stu Loe, Chris Brandolino, Kate Trufitt, and Barry Soper. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

With the countdown to October 14 now officially underway, we look at the Ag policies of the leading parties. But we ask the Prince of the Provinces whether NZ First is indeed a leading party. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today’s farmer panel features a couple of sheep and beef farmers, one in Palmy North for the Top Four Secondary School rugby, and the other about to head into the woolshed in the Maniototo. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

NIWA Weather Guy. It’s day one of spring. What will it bring? We get NIWA’s latest outlook. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We finally tracked down the long-lost, but new chief executive of Potatoes NZ. And what a delight she was! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Six weeks out from the election, we ask our political pundit to call it. Plus, did Eugenie Sage unlawfully take the photo of the Greenpeace protestors? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Shane McManaway, Angus Gidley-Baird, Chris Russell, and Karin Kos. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Wairarapa farmer and philanthropist comments on the farming season, growing natives, deer farming, dairy v sheep/beef, and funding and staffing a health centre. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rabobank’s Sydney-based senior animal proteins analyst on why the American domestic beef market is defying gravity, when the rest of the world is going backwards. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our Australian correspondent comments on Brett Lee selling avocado to the Indians, NZ importing Aussie wool, and a timber under threat. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Apiculture NZ chief executive is asking New Zealanders to support our hard-working bees for “Bee Aware Month” - September. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Chris Hipkins, Stacey Waaka, Nathan Penny, and Hunter McGregor. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On the eve of the National Party tax cut announcement, we ask the Prime Minister if he’s going to repay Nicola Willis by leaking her tax plan. Plus, we question his $4 billion public service bonfire and why it hadn’t happened earlier. We also challenged his “tone deaf” ag emissions policy announcement. And then of course there’s Winston ... See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We catch up with the world-champion New Zealand rugby player, and Beef + Lamb Ambassador, who went up against world-record-holding sheep shearer Sacha Bond in a series of athletic tests to promote Iron Awareness Week. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Westpac’s rural economist is famous for his eternal optimism. So we ask “Pollyanna” Penny how he’s going sugar-coat the current economic downturn for rural New Zealand. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our Shanghai-based correspondent has little by way of good news about the current Chinese economy but says the ban on Japanese seafood could have an upside for NZ food exporters. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Todd Clark, Dr Jacqueline Rowarth, Adam Thompson, Rhys Roberts, and Sirma Karapeeva. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sixty years on from Martin Luther King Jnr’s “I Have a Dream” speech from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, we head to Lexington, Kentucky to ask our US farming correspondent for his reflections on one of the most moving moments in history. Plus we ask why American farmers are getting records for prices for beef when our prices are falling. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

One of New Zealand’s leading primary sector academics says that with all the models, projections, algorithms and forecasts flying around, it’s no wonder farmers are confused. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today’s farmer panel features two young rural leaders and entrepreneurs who “have a dream” for New Zealand farming. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The chief executive of the Meat Industry Association casts her eye over some disappointing July numbers for the red meat industry. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On the third episode of the Plate to Pasture podcast, The Country's executive producer Rowena Duncum is joined by Silver Fern Farms Agribusiness Strategic Solutions Manager Greg McSkimming and Supply Chain Commercial Manager Vinnie Booiman. The trio looks at on-farm initiatives such as Farm Assurance Plus, as well as the role digital tools, like satellite mapping, play in running successful busine...