The Country

It's Stihl Chainsaw Safety Awareness Week and we have some great news for you - with over $3,000 of Stihl chainsaw gear up for grabs! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today's BOP Panel features the Chairman of Zespri and the GM of the Waikato and Coromandel Drug Detection Agency. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We let the Groundswell co-founder off the chain as he lets loose on Country-of-Origin labelling for our pork industry, plus the Government's Emission Reduction Plan. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Act Party leader looks back on last week's big political announcements - the Emissions Reduction Plan and the "Brain Drain" Budget. We also preview this week's OCR announcement and a changing of the political guard across the Tasman. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to David Seymour, Laurie Paterson, Bruce Cameron, Graeme Smith and Phil Ropiha.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to James Shaw, Dr Tim Mackle, Karin Kos, Michael Every and Jim Hopkins. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Norwood Brand Ambassador talks farming and footy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In a past life, he was the chief executive of farm servicing co-op Farmlands; but these days he's running NZ's biggest seafood and fishing company Sanford and he has some interesting comments to make on the state of an industry that's now in a Covid-recovery state. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

It's World Bee Day and the chief executive of Apiculture NZ reminds us that every third spoonful of food depends on pollination and bees are our major pollinators. But are they an endangered species, their very existence being threatened by chemical sprays such as glyphosate? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Minister of Housing deputises for the PM and defends yesterday's Budget, denying it's a neither a "backward, band-aid, nor brain-drain" Budget. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Megan Woods, Karin Kos, Peter Reidie and Kevin 'Smiley' Barrett. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We wrap the show with Farmstrong's programme lead looking at the impact Farmstrong is really having on the nation's farmers. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week our Aussie correspondent comments on New Zealand's Budget day, Australia's election day this weekend and what's put Grey Nomads in danger of losing out on seasonal work. We also talk Bachelor and Spinster Balls. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We take our monthly look at the rural property market with the GM of PGG Wrightson Rural Real Estate. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

All news headlines this morning point to some nasty weather in store. So how nasty? And where? We asked our NIWA weatherman.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The former president of Federated Farmers and 2015 Fonterra Dairy Woman of the Year on contesting the WFO (World Farming Organisation) presidency next month and Budget day.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rowena Duncum talks to Katie Milne, Chris Brandolino, Peter Newbold, Chris Russell and Gerard Vaughan. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

She's one of New Zealand's leading farming academics and she writes an excellent fortnightly column for our website. Today we look at the rock and hard place the world finds itself between, as it looks to reduce GHG emissions and feed the planet. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We salute a rural raconteur for his "Martin Luther King Jnr moment" on St Patrick's day, plus today he has Labour and the Greens firmly in his sights. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The NZ First leader (and a man who was once happy to be just the MP for Tauranga) says that while he's not a starter for next month's Tauranga by-election, he's lining up for a crack in the 2023 General Election. We also get his take on the Government's Emissions Reduction Plan and what he's expecting in tomorrow's Budget. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fonterra's CFO responds to James Shaw's assertion that New Zealand will lose lucrative off-shore buyers if it doesn't lower the carbon footprint of its dairy production. We also look at last night's GDT auction (down 2.9 per cent, WMP -4.9 per cent) and explain why it was actually a good result! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

He's one of The Country's most popular and controversial correspondents - a Singapore-based Global Strategist for Rabobank. Today we ask if there's an end in sight for the Russian/Ukraine War, whether there's an end in sight for the Chinese zero-covid policy and associated lockdowns and he tells us why the food business is a good one to be in. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Michael Every, Marc Rivers, Winston Peters, Jim Hopkins and Dr Jacqueline Rowarth. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The world's greatest shearer (and Shearing NZ President) comments on the 2022/23 competitive circuit, world record attempts and the big dry in the upper North Island. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The red meat industry has cracked $3 billion of exports for the March quarter (2022) for the first time despite facing some serious headwinds, both internationally and domestically. So says the Senior Manager Strategy, Trade Policy & Advocacy for the Meat Industry Association. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.