The Country

The President of New Zealand Rugby is in Dunedin for the Bledisloe test. He has committed his professional career to the agricultural and horticultural sectors and in 2019 he completed 35 years of service with Fruitfed Supplies, a part of PGG Wrightson.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today’s Norwood panel features the chief executive and the brand ambassador as we talk farming and footy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We’re joined in the studio by one of New Zealand sport radio’s biggest names, who reminisces about his 1990s adventures with Mackay, and reveals why he’s made the trip to Dunedin. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We catch up with Fonterra's chief executive officer after the co-op announced a drop in its 2023/24 milk price forecast this morning. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Wayne Langford, Katie Milne, Stu Duncan, Stu Loe, Chris Russell, and Craig Wiggins. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The President of Federated Farmers says reaching a point where we have no current infections and no properties under investigation is a significant milestone in eradicating M. bovis. However, he says it’s been an incredibly challenging few years for the farming families who have been infected and rural communities who have been anxious about the disease’s spread. See omnystudio.com/listener for pr...

The former President of Federated Farmers ponders who will be the next Minister of Agriculture and says, when it comes to combating climate change, adaptation is just as important as mitigation. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Is today’s farmer panel getting out of winter mode and into test match mode? Plus, we announce the All Blacks team for Saturday’s Bledisloe Cup. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our Australian correspondent talks grain in West Australia, a record price for an Angus bull, a tragic tractor story and (reluctantly) rugby. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Mid-Canterbury farmer and mental health advocate whose initiative “Lean on a Gate, Talk to a Mate” is going international. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Chris Hipkins, Philippa Wright, Dr Jacqueline Rowarth, Todd Clark, and Mike Cronin. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Prime Minister comments on the eradication of M. Bovis, a tanking tax take, the perils of polls, waking up in cold sweat, National’s roading policy, and whether he’s going to take GST of fruit and veges. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hawke's Bay farming stalwart is now in her 46th year of being involved in the wool industry. Today we get her take on an industry on its knees, and ask her if it has a future. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

One of New Zealand’s leading primary sector academics says falling commodity prices should be a signal to the Government to get the regulatory foot off farmers’ throats, so we can pay our way in the world. And her latest column looks at all the food a food-producing nation imports. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our Kentucky-based US farming correspondent comments on heatwaves, grain and beef prices, and Biden and Trump tied in the polls. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We find Fonterra’s Head of Co-op Affairs in Shanghai, on a very bad line, to talk about an even worse overnight GDT auction. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Winston Peters, Adam Thompson, Rhys Roberts, Dennis Voznesenski, Professor John Hickford, and Anna Boyd. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We ask the NZ First leader if his lunch is going to be cut by Luxon and Seymour. Is he likely to be lonely and loveless on the cross benches if he gets past the 5 per cent threshold come October 14? And should Winston’s lunch be cheaper because we’ve taken the GST off fruit and veges? And does he support his potential bedfellow, National’s new roading policy? See omnystudio.com/listener for privac...

Today’s farmer panel features two dynamic young entrepreneurs who have recently made appearances on the iconic Country Calendar TV programme - one the director of the Restore Native Plant Nursery, the other the chief executive of Align Farms. Plus, we also ponder emissions pricing and wool carpets in schools. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rabobank senior grains analyst comments on world prices, after Ukrainian ports were hit by Russian missiles and Russia’s Ministry of Defence warned that all vessels travelling to Ukraine’s Black Sea ports, including the largest port, Odesa,  will be considered as potential carriers of military cargo.  And could this grain supply crisis have a silver lining for New Zealand dairy farmers? See omnyst...

We head to Lincoln University where a lecturer has set his students “the best assignment ever” - an assignment on whether we should have wool or synthetic carpets in our schools. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Genetics Operations Manager Beef + Lamb NZ is just back from a whistlestop tour of North American beef farms and operational systems. Today we get her take-home message of why future collaboration is so important for the industry. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Christopher Luxon, Mike Casey, Nadia Lim, Carlos Bagrie, and Phil Duncan. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

National’s leader talks about his party’s new roading and infrastructure policy and how he intends to pay for it, and he ducks for cover when asked about who’s leaking from Labour’s caucus. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We talk to the Cromwell orchardist and entrepreneur behind the launch of the country’s first driver-optional, fully electric tractor at what is believed to be the world’s first 100 per cent electric, zero-fossil fuel orchard. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.