The Country

We talk to a power celebrity farming couple about series two of “Nadia’s Farm” and how life on the farm is going at Royalburn Station on the Crown Range. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Weather wars and weather woes. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Emma Poole, Tim Dangen, Victoria Bernard, Angus Simms, Alistair Niven, Damien O’Connor, and Jane Smith. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Murray Deaker, Patrick Crawshaw, Chris Brandolino, and Don Carson. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ten years on from stepping aside from his award-winning sports show on Newstalk ZB, the great man is back, and today, in a radio exclusive with The Country he announces the subject of his first podcast, due to drop in early August. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This month’s Farmstrong farmer runs a 285-ha sheep and beef property in cyclone-ravaged Patoka in Hawke’s Bay. And if that’s not enough on his plate, he’s also recently been elected to the Board of Beef + Lamb NZ and was a grand finalist in the 2023 FMG Young Farmer of the Year Contest. How does he fit it all into a day and fix his farm in the process? We ask him. See omnystudio.com/listener for p...

NIWA weather forecaster comments on the just-released Updated Seasonal Climate Outlook, and El Niño is on its way. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Has the PR Man for the NZ Forest Owners Association really earned his keep of late, by petitioning the Government to reset the ETS with an increased floor price setting for carbon? And does forestry have a good future without carbon credits? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Nathan Penny, Angela Blair, James Shaw, and Chris Russell. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Westpac’s rural economist has slashed his farmgate milk price forecast for the 2023-24 season by $1.10 down to $7.80/kg MS. He had been very bullish previously with a near-$9 expectation, but said the main reason for hacking the forecast is ongoing sluggishness in the Chinese economy. Plus, we ask about plunging red meat prices. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A South Canterbury farmer has set up a petition calling on the Government to only use wool carpets in its buildings. It comes after the Ministry of Education’s decision to fit out hundreds of rural schools with US-made nylon carpet. The decision caused outrage in rural areas where farmers are struggling to garner good profits off their wool clip. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information...

We ask the Climate Change Minister if the Government reset of the ETS (with a new floor price of $60/tonne) will stabilise the carbon market. It tanked after settings were tightened in Dec 2022, from $88 to just $33, with no credits traded in the first two auctions of 2023. And if the ideal scenario is eventually a carbon price of zero, where does that leave the carbon farmers currently planting t...

We find our Australian correspondent in Albany WA, where we talk truffle farming, woke cultural regulations killing farming, the Bledisloe Cup and The Ashes. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Emma Poole, Tim Dangen, Todd McClay, Angus Simms, Alastair Niven, and Jeremy Rookes. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It’s the Dynamic Dangen Duo Panel. The 55th and 54th, respectively, FMG Young Farmers of the Year, and siblings, come from an over-achieving family raised on a Muriwai beef farm. Today Emma talks about her first couple of weeks wearing the Cloak of Knowledge and Tim explains why he’s taken up a role as an ambassador for MPI. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We talk to National’s Agriculture and Trade spokesman about the possibility of a Blue tidal wave in all rural electorates, Kiri Allan, David Parker, RMA reform on rural water being pushed through the House and why he reckons we need a Minister of Hunting and Fishing. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We talk to the founder of, and a grower for, Wonky Box - a company passionate about making cosmetically-challenged fruit and veges affordable for Kiwis in a cost-of-living crisis. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Country’s outspoken spokesperson on lifestyle and hobby farming is a bitter, twisted and cynical man but does he raise some fair and valid points in his vitriolic critique of the current Government? Plus we look at the disastrous returns for the strong wool industry. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Damien O'Connor, Jane Smith, Mark de Lautour and Victoria Bernard. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We ask the Minister of Agriculture and Trade whether he's picked up any new ministerial portfolios, as one of the few remaining walking wounded in the Labour Cabinet?  Plus we talk David Parker throwing his Revenue portfolio toys, Kiri Allan's sad exit from politics, pandering to census non-compliers and gangs, and why the government is not backing farmers and wool carpets in schools. And are the...

Is a North Otago farmer and award-winning environmentalist who responds to some of Agriculture and Trade Minister Damien O'Connor's more confusing comments. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The chief executive of Open Country Dairy, our second-largest dairy company, updates a very challenging market but says if farmers can get through the next six months, the world will be a better place in 2024. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Last week Rabobank and food education charity  Garden to Table  launched a new financial literacy teaching resource to develop and strengthen money management skills among New Zealand school children. Today we get the low down on this new ten-lesson teaching unit that helps students build their financial literacy skills by undertaking everyday garden and cooking activities. See omnystudio.com/list...

Jamie Mackay talks to David Seymour, John McCaw, Chris Allen, Laurie Paterson, Doug Avery and Grant McCallum and Phil Duncan. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Act Party leader has some sympathy for Kiri Allan, but none for Winston Peters! Plus we talk the respective combatant's key election policies - creating toll roads vs taking the GST off essential food. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.