The Country

The principal at Darfield High School, says that on Tuesday the senior ag students had a “drive your tractor to school day”. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

He’s a real favourite on The Country, even though we don’t always like the message. Rabobank’s Singapore-based global strategist says the world (and its economy) is a messy place at the moment but he remains an optimist in the long term. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Michael Every, Andy England, and Chris Russell. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fonterra's Acting CFO reviews another disappointing GDT auction - down 3.9 per cent. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our China-based correspondent says the Covid lockdown in Shanghai is wearing thin and doing business is very difficult. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The chief executive of Fieldays joins us as the countdown to Mystery Creek continues - just 28 sleeps to go - until the Nov 30 to Dec 3 event. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A North Otago farmer and award-winning environmentalist responds to Minister Nash and says farmers need to understand that the HWEN proposal is linked to the mass afforestation position we find ourselves in. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the absence of the PM, we catch up with the Minister for Tourism, Forestry and Economic and Regional Development. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Stuart Nash, Jane Smith, Peter Nation, Hunter McGregor, and Chris Rowe. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The PR man for the NZ Forestry Association says we need to stop the “hysteria” around forestry. And we ask him whether forestry is getting a bad name from carbon farming. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our US farming correspondent joins us from the horse racing capital of the world, Lexington, to yarn about Halloween, a double-whammy drought and if American farmers facing a carbon tax. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This rural advocate was there in the 80s when farming subsidies were chopped overnight. We ask if now, nearly four decades on, times are just as divisive. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

One of New Zealand’s leading farming academics says what we are experiencing on the land is “this generation’s subsidy-free moment”.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Monday’s resident weather expert says (on a Tuesday) the Cup might be in Melbourne but the good weather is in New Zealand. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Phil Duncan, Dr Jacqueline Rowarth, Ross Hyland, Todd Clark, and Don Carson. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today’s panel features a Central Hawkes Bay sheep farmer and a Northland cow cocky. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We talk to the star of a new Kiwi documentary - When The Cows Come Home - and we give you the opportunity to win tickets to Thursday’s premiere by texting COW to 5009. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We ask one of New Zealand’s leading sheep breeders if he is in danger of becoming an extinct species. Plus, he explains why he’s part of a private syndicate looking to prevent a large North Island station from going to carbon farming. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

National’s leader talks about Labour’s “Five Years of Failure”, whether his McDonald’s photo op was a publicity stunt that could have back-fired, and whether he’s stuck between a rock and a hard place on He Waka Eke Noa. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Christopher Luxon, Derek Daniell, Andrew Johnstone, Steve Wyn-Harris and Grant McCallum.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay interviews David Seymour, Chloe Butcher-Herries, Todd Charteris and Sarah Peake, Bernadette Hunt, and Winston Peters. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our political correspondent ponders Jacinda Ardern on the ice and the return of compulsory unionism.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The GM of PGG Wrightson Wool takes his monthly look at the market. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the absence of brand ambassador Smiley Barrett, the Norwood panel features just the chief executive.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This rural mental health advocate is also the 2021 Rural Communicator of the Year. Today he talks about his link with Farmstrong and possible land use change in his home province of Mid Canterbury. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.