The Country

Jamie Mackay talks to Wayne Langford, Shane Jones, Peter Wylie, Jim Hopkins, and Chris Russell. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Acting President of Federated Farmers takes time from a Feds’ board meeting to chat with us about yesterday’s visit to Parliament to chat with the Nats, Labour and the Greens. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Prince of the Provinces goes to war with the Gangs and Wokeness. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We take our monthly look at the rural real estate market with the team from PGG Wrightson. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We continue our series on Old Young Farmers of the Year. But today we pivot to an Old Commentator who has a 21-year association with the prestigious event. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our Aussie correspondent talks about State of O, the Ashes series, Live Export trade and the back-packers are back! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Chris Hipkins, Farmer Tom Martin, Grant Dodson, Dr Jacqueline Rowarth, and Scott Duggan. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We ask the Prime Minister about his new cosy relationship with Mike Hosking, the latest political poll, whether a step back on the ETS is the death knell for forestry, and whether he’ll be overawed by President Xi on his upcoming visit to China. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our UK correspondent is rapt his Farmer Time education programme is taking off in New Zealand with 1000 students participating in 2022. We also talk Boris, Brexit and how the UK Groundswell is different from ours. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Forest Owners Association (FOA) says the just-announced reform options for revising the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) will cause a shortfall of plantation forests for sequestering carbon in New Zealand and make meeting our 2050 emissions target impossible. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

One of New Zealand’s leading farming academics says our split gas approach to emissions pricing puts us ahead of the game globally. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The National Sales Manager for Volkswagen NZ reviews Fieldays and says, although demand for big ticket items was somewhat muted, any chance to get in front of 105,000 punters is a good event! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Mike Casey, Anna Campbell, Traci Houpapa, Aimee Blake, Finn Ross, Maury Leyland Penno, and Guy Wills. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The chief executive of New Zealand Zero is also a Central Otago food producer and tech entrepreneur. He talks about his mission to decarbonise the world - starting with electric farm machinery. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The co-founder of Zestt Wellness, with a PhD in plant biotechnology, talks about human health, and ruins Mackay's day by telling him to reduce his beer consumption. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The chair of the Federation of Māori Authorities ponders whether Māori will be disadvantaged by proposed changes to the ETS. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We catch up with the co-chairs of Future Farmers New Zealand - the daughter of sixth-generation farmers and the son of Geoff and Justine Ross from Lake Hawea Station - to find out what makes them tick. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We talk to the co-founder of Leaft Foods - a business designed to make a transformational shift in the way we farm and produce food.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The chief executive of New Zealand Natural Fibres on creating innovative uses of hemp fibre, which he calls a “super-plant”.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Christopher Luxon, Ben Scales, Phil Duncan, Steve Wyn-Harris and Grant McCallum. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The National Party leader discusses recession, Fieldays, his agricultural emissions pricing plan, and what to do with the gangs. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ahead of our live broadcast tomorrow from the E Tipu farming conference at the Christchurch Town Hall, we catch up with a dynamic young member of the Fibre Panel that I’m chairing. Along with William Murrell, he capital-raised $1.5 million to develop harakeke (New Zealand flax) for high-tech industrial uses. Are we heading back to the future to revitalise a once-mighty industry? See omnystudio.com...

Monday’s resident weather expert gives us an update and wonders where Rowena Duncum is. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today’s panel features a Central Hawke’s Bay sheep farmer and a Northland cow cocky. Today we find one of them hob-knobbing at one of New Zealand’s most exclusive golf clubs. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Todd McClay, Derelee Potroz-Smith, Sir David Fagan, Jane Smith, and Chris Hipkins. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.