The Country

The Minister of Agriculture and Trade takes a closer look at the SOPI report, including dairy, red meat, and horticulture. He also talks about the Government’s sequestration announcement, carbon farming, and how he’s been received at Fieldays. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rabobank’s chief executive pays The Country a visit, to talk about a new agri board game called Grow, which will feature as part of New Zealand’s NCEA school curriculum. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

National’s agriculture spokesman doesn’t mince words about the Government’s sequestration reconsideration, calling it “bloody hopeless”. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The chief executive of PGG Wrightson reflects on 40 years of support for the IHC Calf and Rural Scheme. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Irrigation NZ’s chief executive comments on her 15 years as a Fieldays’ visitor, before talking about the future of water capture and whether New Zealand should build more dams. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Country catches up with the founder and creative director of Karen Murrell Natural Lipsticks, about an innovative new product - Kera Kisses - a lipstick made from New Zealand wool. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Hits hosts are at Fieldays flogging their new Out of This World-flavoured Heartland chips and trying to blend in with the rural crowd. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Waikato Farmer, and mental health ambassador, gives us an update on how Kiwi farmers’ wellbeing is faring nowadays, along with his own headspace. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay finally comes face-to-face with one of his most prolific (and critical) correspondents. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The past president of Fieldays reflects on 38 years of service and how Fieldays has morphed into the Southern Hemisphere’s largest agricultural event. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Zanda McDonald Award finalist, and director of Restore Native, talks about sequestration and the role native trees can play in mitigating climate change. He also puts on his mortgage broker’s hat to take a look at the future of mortgage rates. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

KPMG’s global head of agribusiness on the six key points in the latest issue of Agri Agenda, which says New Zealand can expect food and fibre to be a campaign battleground in 2023. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We caught up with the Prime Minister on her way to Fieldays this morning to talk about the Government’s announcement about recognising on-farm sequestration in the emissions pricing plan, which Labour MPS are at Mystery Creek - and where’s David Parker? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

While the Head of Insight at NZX has a more positive view on the sequestration announcement, she says New Zealand shouldn’t have been in this situation in the first place. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The chief executive of Beef + Lamb NZ remains sceptical about the Government’s emissions pricing plan announcement on sequestration, saying “the devil is in the detail”. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The chair of the Federation for Māori Authorities (FOMA) on the Government’s sequestration announcement, the future challenges for global agriculture, and what’s in store for Māori primary industries. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fieldays day one: Traci Houpapa, Sam McIvor, Julia Jones, Jacinda Ardern, Ian Proudfoot, Adam Thompson, Lloyd Dowling, Dennis Neilson, and Sam Owen. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Rowena Duncum, Steven Joyce, Nathan Guy, Jim Hopkins, and Tom Anderson.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Country’s executive producer sets the scene from Fieldays at Mystery Creek, once Mackay sorts out her microphone. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We continue our series on “Steves who could have been Prime Minister”. Today we ponder the state of the nation and the future of farming. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The chairman of the Meat Industry Association, and former Minister of Agriculture, is unhappy with the Government’s emissions pricing proposal. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The rural raconteur says he’s none too happy with the media’s “meek compliance” with the “catastrophe peddlers of climate change”. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This Northern Southland farmer is running 210 km - from Waikaia in Northern Southland to the Lake Bar in Wānaka - to raise money for Movember. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Steve Maharey, Sir David Fagan, Dr Jacqueline Rowarth, Steve Wyn-Harris, and Grant McCallum. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the first in our series of interviews with “Steves who could have been Prime Minister”, we catch up with the former Labour Cabinet Minister and Vice Chancellor of Massey University to get his thoughts on the state of the nation and the world economy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.