The Country

Today’s panel features a Central Hawke's Bay sheep farmer and a Northland cow cocky. Today we ponder the Heartland NZ Party and the Ag Person the Year. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Monday’s resident weather expert on his Christmas day forecast, six days out from Santa. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Christopher Luxon, Lara Yocarini, Tom Sturgess, Don Carson, and Damien O'Connor. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Julia Jones, Don Carson, Rowland Smith, Chris Brandolino, Grant Edwards, and Barry Soper. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The chair of food charity Meat the Need reflects on an outstanding rural telethon (The Big Feed) that raised money/product for 1.2 million meals yesterday. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It’s one of the longest-held traditions on our radio show, dating way back to the 1990s, when one of our longest-serving correspondents names his annual Ag Person of the Year. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Arguably the world’s best shearer (when he’s not sitting in his flash new New Holland tractor) talks about his frustrations with the weather and he previews two world record attempts next week at the 8-hour strong-wool lamb record. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We ask NIWA’s weather guy when it’s going to stop raining and for his long-range Xmas Day forecast. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The GM of PGG Wrightson Wool casts his eye back over another very challenging year for the industry. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our political correspondent ponders his Politician of the Year. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Damien O'Connor, Wayne Langford, Emma Higgins, Harry Mobray, and Chris Russell.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Minister of Agriculture and Trade joins us for his final chat for 2022 and it would be fair to say the conversation/debate took some unexpected twists and turns! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rabobank’s senior dairy and proteins analyst reviews the bank’s latest Rural Confidence Survey which sees farmer confidence at an all-time low, the lowest in the 20-year history of the survey. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We talk to one of the founders of the HeartlandNZ Party - the self-proclaimed Farmers’ Party. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our Australian correspondent talks about dairy and wool prices on the improve and tractor sales (the barometer of farmer confidence) on the up. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The man behind Meat the Need is hosting a 13-hour rural telethon with Matt Chisholm to support hungry Kiwi families this Christmas. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Jacinda Ardern, Lara Yocarini, and Jane Smith. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

For the final time in 2022 the Prime Minister joins us on The Country and on the agenda is President Zelensky’s address to Parliament, the “arrogant prick” (elephant in the room) comment, the persistence with unpopular policies such as Three Waters and co-governance, tomorrow’s meeting with Groundswell and some wins on the FTA front in Europe. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rabobank’s Global Head of Rural talks about her observations from her recent trip to New Zealand, where we caught up at the Rabobank client function at Fieldays. Plus, she comments on the likelihood of a world recession in 2023 and on the challenges facing food producers in other regions around the world, particularly in her home country of the Netherlands. Football, ice-skating and Amsterdam cook...

The North Otago farmer, and award-winning environmentalist, also makes her final appearance for 2022. In her sights are the Prime Minister and her meeting with Groundswell tomorrow, and why she reckons we need a Celebrity Treasure Island Political Survivor reality show ahead of next year’s election. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Sir Ian Taylor, Mike Petersen, Stephen Bell-Booth, and Dr Jacqueline Rowarth. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Following on from his column in the NZ Herald, one of the country’s leading tech entrepreneurs wonders aloud “what’s happened to the Labour Party that I have supported all my life?” See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A man who has worn many hats for New Zealand agriculture says “the level of division in the sector is untenable and must be addressed”. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The pop star theme continues as we catch up with a man who played keyboards for America in the 1980s. He’s also an ag entrepreneur who comments on the unsettled science around ag emissions, rampant on-farm inflation and the state of farmers’ mental health. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

One of New Zealand’s leading farming academics reckons we need to “accentuate the positives and eliminate the negatives”. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.