The Country

Rowena Duncum and Jamie Mackay talk to Damien O'Connor, Andrew Hoggard, Emma Higgins and Ele Ludemann. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Chairman of Zespri comments on the devastating frosts that hit horticulturalists around the country last week. He also laments the loss of good pastoral land to carbon farming and we sing the praises of the Bay of Plenty Steamers ahead of this weekend's NPC semi-final. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Act Party leader offers his views on the "great swing to the centre-right" in the local body elections. Plus, he looks at contentious issues on a national scale, such as Government spending, Three Waters, Fresh Water Farm Plans, the Income Insurance Scheme and the TVNZ/RNZ merger. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to David Seymour, Bruce Cameron and Phil Duncan. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Nadia Lim, Carlos Bagrie, Jacinda Ardern, Todd Charteris, Samuel Whitelock and Shane Jones. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our political correspondent ponders when are you Māori enough to be a Māori? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today's farmer panel talks about the weather, politics and rugby. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The PR guy for the NZ Forest Owners Association responds to Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, Simon Upton's comments that New Zealand can't plant itself out of the climate crisis, and if we tried to, we would have to plant half of the North Island in pine trees.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Country's host is outraged by Greenpeace, and Jim's equally outraged by the racism of Labour's Māori caucus. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

MPI's M. bovis programme director says summer testing for Mycoplasma bovis will be stepped up after New Zealand's nationwide surveillance programme identified a new strain of the disease on one of the four confirmed positive properties, which are all in Mid Canterbury. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

NIWA weather forecaster on the calm after the storm. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Chris Brandolino, Simon Andrew, Jim Hopkins, Don Carson, Stu Loe, Stu Duncan and Barry Soper. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

PGG Wrightson's Otago Regional Livestock Manager updates stock sales in his region from a very chilly, snow-clad Alexandra. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our Australian correspondent laments the NRL Grand Final result, the wettest year ever in Sydney and the make-up of the world's best coffee.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This Wairarapa arable farmer (and former vice president of Federated Farmers) says her cropping farm is more suitable for growing rice at the moment rather than grain. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

He's back! The Prince of the Provinces. The self-titled Matua Shane Jones. And it's no holds barred as we discuss wrong tree, wrong place, Dr Rod Carr, the Māori caucus, and the desecration of a carving in Kaitaia.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We head to heartland Southland to the top of the Hokonui Hills where the 2012 winner of the Ballance Farm Environment Awards is battling blizzard-like conditions for lambing and calving.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Grant Weller, Shane Jones, Karen Williams, Chris Russell and John Duffy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fonterra's departing CFO takes a look at last night's very disappointing GDT auction result (fell 3.5 per cent, WMP down 4 per cent, Butter slid 7 per cent). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our China-based correspondent is a Kiwi selling NZ venison in Shanghai. But he says the jury's out on how successful Beef + Lamb NZ's meal vending machines will be in China, where there's not a vending machine culture due to fast, no-fees delivery of food to homes and workplaces. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rabobank's chief executive reviews the bank's latest farmer confidence survey (inching higher, albeit from near-record-low levels) and we launch the 2022 Rabobank Good Deeds promotion - your chance to win cash and labour for your community project. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The All Blacks locking legend and Farmstrong Ambassador joins us to talk a bit of farming, footy and good mental health. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The PM comments on a challenging day ahead on the financial front for Kiwis, National's tax cuts, the Income Insurance Scheme (Jobs Tax), why she wasn't tougher on Kelvin Davis and whether Willie Jackson was out of his depth over the TVNZ / RNZ merger?  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Jacinda Ardern, Sam Whitelock, Todd Charteris, Hunter McGregor and Marc Rivers.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

"Communication is an art as well as a science," writes one of New Zealand's leading farming academics. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.