The Country

It's our monthly look at the market with the team from PGG Wrightson Wool. And today we ask if there are worthwhile premiums for organic wool. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today's panel features the "Two Stu's" as we ponder farming, footy and the weather. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The newly-elected Federated Farmers VP and biosecurity spokesman (and YOLO farmer) comments on the response to the threat of foot-and-mouth disease and a bugger of a July for Kiwi cockies. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We pay tribute to the late John Hore Grenell with one of his old friends, and celebrate the opening of the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games, with a man who set alight the 1974 Christchurch Commonwealth Games.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Shane McManaway, Dick Tayler, Wayne Langford, Stu Loe, Stu Duncan, Palle Petersen and Barry Soper. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our Australian correspondent talks rain, rainbows, biosecurity and a giant $115,000 Poll Merino ram. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We finally got Westpac's ever-optimistic rural economist to hit the $10 forecast button, but it's not for dairy, it's for lamb! And mutton's not far behind at $7.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Following on from a regenerative farmer, we yarn to the Resilient Farmer about his farming system and how to get through a record July rainfall. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A West Otago organic and regenerative farmer reckons there has been an ongoing campaign by some New Zealand scientists to discredit these farming systems - and it needs to be challenged. Today we give him the opportunity.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Allan Richardson, Doug Avery, Nathan Penny and Chris Russell.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Chairman of Beef + Lamb NZ has his say on the threat and response to foot-and-mouth disease and he comments on Dr Rod Carr's interview on The Country yesterday. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We yarn to our sodden Blenheim-based viticulture correspondent and a finalist in the International White Wine of the Year trophy. Plus, to brighten up a terrible weather day, we give you the chance to win one of two fun packs courtesy of the te Pā Family Vineyards. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The NZ First leader is more than happy to weigh in on Chris Luxon's Te Puke escapades, National Radio, the Green Party leadership debacle and foot-and-mouth disease. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

From one Doctor to another! One of New Zealand's leading farming academics responds to and refutes parts of the controversial interview with the chair of the Climate Change Commission, Dr Rod Carr on yesterday's show. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Dr Jacqueline Rowarth, Winston Peters, Blair "Blizzard" McLean, Mikela Dennison-Burgess and Andrew Morrison.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rabobank's Head of Sustainable Business Development discusses some interesting new research from Rabobank and KiwiHarvest looking at how Kiwis' diets and food shopping behaviours are changing. We're spending more on food, less on meat and there are more vegans and vegetarians, but fewer Kiwis are getting their 5+ a day of vegetables and fruit. And we still don't know the difference between a "Best...

A North Otago farmer and award-winning environmentalist responds to Dr Rod Carr on behalf of New Zealand farmers. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The second part of our chat with Climate Change Commission chair Dr Rod Carr is all about low-emissions farm systems. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We ask the chair of the Climate Change Commission why he pushed back against several recommendations from He Waka Eke Noa, including the idea that farmers could offset their GHG emissions with all the vegetation on their farms that sequesters carbon - namely shelter belts, native bush, woody vegetation and potentially even grass?  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Dr Rod Carr, Jane Smith and Blake Holgate. 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.

This Taranaki dairy farmer and Farmstrong Ambassador is about to release his first book "Tools for the Top Paddock". It's a memoir of a sharemilker who battled depression, which led him to start Farm Fit, a fitness bootcamp for the rural community. Plus, today we kick off a campaign in association with Farmstrong around coping under pressure. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

National's deputy leader, sitting in for Christopher Luxon, discusses Three Waters becoming Two Waters, the imploding Green Party, inflation and the cost-of-living crisis, and whether her leader is too accident-prone? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The All Blacks great and NZR Patron says the modern game is "rubbish". Plus, we look at the proliferation of carbon farming on the East Coast, as more good pastoral land goes to pine trees. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Ian Kirkpatrick, Nicola Willis, Kane Brisco, Steve Wyn-Harris and Grant McCallum. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.