The Country

We yarn to a high-profile Christchurch farm accountant about the highest annual inflation (7.3 per cent) since 1990 (when it was 7.6 per cent). Plus, we talk about low-interest rates being responsible for some bad decisions and the prospect of a recession with full employment. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Monday's resident weather expert on a very hot summer in the UK and some very cold weather in store for New Zealand. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Phil Duncan, Pita Alexander, Laurie Paterson, Jack Fagan, Bruce Weir and Janelle Downs. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Dr Jacqueline Rowarth, Winston Peters, Todd Charteris, Jane Smith, and Geoff Ross. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We catch up with the PR Man for the NZ Forest Owners Association to find out a bit more about forest and on-farm carbon sequestration, along with how the export market is looking. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today's panel features the "Two Stus" as we discuss farming, footy and on-farm carbon sequestration. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The high-profile co-owner of Australasia's first certified carbon zero farm, Lake Hawea Station, says a bit of 'Accounting 101' is required for climate change as we need to balance the Carbon Books. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our man from NIWA lets us know what's in store weather-wise for Wellington and the All Blacks v Ireland series decider tomorrow night. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Seth Carrier, Geoff Ross, Stu Duncan, Stu Loe and Don Carson. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Regional Livestock Manager for PGG Wrightson Northland takes a look at how the bull season is going, how dairy is faring, and what he's seeing up in Northland in terms of land use change. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today our Australian correspondent talks about the threat of foot-and-mouth disease, how a Varroa mite scare is affecting Aussie apiculture and how his beloved Blues messed up at last night's State of Origin. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The former Deputy Prime Minister (1990-96), is making his way to France to help raise awareness and money for a museum in Le Quesnoy to commemorate the liberation of the town on November 4, 1918, by New Zealand troops, just a week before the Great War ended. To help this great cause you can donate at nzmmtlq.nz/donate See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rowena Duncum talks to Wayne Langford, Sir Don McKinnon, Chris Russell and Bernie McGahan. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

He's a Golden Bay farmer by day, the YOLO Farmer on social media, and now the newly-elected vice president of Federated Farmers. We find out if he came away from the PINZ conference Covid-free and take a look at the risk foot-and-mouth disease poses to our agriculture sector. He also gives us an on-farm update and lets us know how his food charity Meat the Need is getting on. See omnystudio.com/li...

We ask an independent economist - with the OCR certain to lift by 50 basis points this afternoon, is the cure worse than the disease? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rabobank's chief executive says spiralling costs for a host of key farm inputs - including fuel, fertiliser, feed and labour - have driven a sharp drop in sentiment among the nation’s food producers. The latest Rabobank Rural Confidence Survey has found that farmer confidence is now at its lowest level since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy...

The North Otago farmer and award-winning environmentalist takes us on a history tour today by comparing New Zealand farmers to the Russian Kulaks - relatively prosperous peasants who own a farm. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The NZ First leader blames some of the lack of farmer confidence on the current Labour government, even though he put them in there. He also comments on the Climate Change Commission and his old mate Sir Don McKinnon, even though he took the Deputy PM's job off him. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Winston Peters, Jane Smith, Todd Charteris and Cameron Bagrie. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our UK correspondent talks about heatwaves, the prospect of a new PM, and his Farmer Time initiative coming to New Zealand. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

One of New Zealand's leading farming academics says Geoff and Justine Ross are right. People pay for the story. But they also want proteins with fewer emissions and that is the story New Zealand needs to tell. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We ask the deputy director-general of MPI if we're doing enough to keep Foot and Mouth Disease out of the country, especially now as it's edging ever closer (in Bali). See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Oat milk (or should that be juice?) is coming to Southland and we chat to the NZ Functional Foods interim chief executive about a $50 million factory being built to produce 80 million litres annually. But what does it taste like? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We ask the Act Party leader if he's a racist trying to "stoke the fires of a culture war"? This was after he claimed New Zealand is becoming an ethnostate based on the proposed Three Waters reforms and the creation of a new Māori Health Authority. Plus, what does he think about Rod Carr and the Climate Chang Commission? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to David Seymour, Roger Carruthers, Stuart Anderson, Dr Jacqueline Rowarth and Tom Martin. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.