The Country

Our Australian correspondent is about to address the Order of Australia Association on food security and climate change. His talk is titled "Can we have our cake and heat it too?" See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We talk to the co-founder of CarbonCrop - a Nelson-based start-up that is aiming to build a global niche in taking the hassle out of claiming carbon credits on tree blocks of land as small as one hectare. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The President of Federated Farmers comments on annual inflation hitting 6.9 per cent for the year to March 31, the largest movement since a 7.6 per cent annual increase in the year to the June 1990 quarter. We also ponder what annual on-farm inflation would come in at? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Andrew Hoggard, Nick Butcher, Chris Russell, Jeremy Rookes and Stu Loe. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fonterra's CFO comments on last night's GDT auction which resulted in a third consecutive drop (-3.6 per cent, WMP down 4.4 per cent) following a record peak on March 1. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Sydney-based General Manager of Rabobank’s food and agribusiness research division for Australia and NZ discusses the global commodity markets, including food inflation and the fallout from the Russia/Ukraine conflict. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Why is the Chairman of Zespri not in Japan on Jacinda's trade mission? And why is the Kiwifruit industry so good at crisis management? And how is the peak of the harvest and packing season faring in face of the Covid and labour challenges? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Not merely content with just being a dairy farmer, school teacher and Meat the Need co-founder, we ask an incredibly busy woman about her latest entrepreneurial venture - Hemprino - NZ's latest fashion label which combines the properties of hemp and merino in a single blend. The idea was spawned during the 2018 Kellogg Rural Leadership Course along with fellow alumni Paul Ensor and Harriet Bell. S...

Filling in for the PM, who's in Japan, today we find the National Party leader in Northland about to do a "town hall' meeting in Waipu where he's expecting to get his ear chewed by some farmers (one in particular)! We also ask if he's a manufactured politician plus talk about Greenpeace, agricultural GHG emissions, the global supply chain and Easter trading rules. See omnystudio.com/listener for p...

Jamie Mackay talks to Christopher Luxon, Siobhan O'Malley, Bruce Cameron, Marc Rivers, and Stefan Vogel. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Monday’s resident weather expert joins us on a Tuesday. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today’s panel features a dry Southland arable farmer and a one-eyed Northland cow cocky. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our US farming correspondent comments on springtime in Kentucky as the bluegrass blows in the wind. Plus, we talk about the Kentucky Derby, Joe Biden's Ukraine response and why Covid is soooo 2021 now in America! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Why is Greenpeace outraged (because they're perpetually outraged - that's why!) at the prospects of us eating a "sustainable healthy diet"? We ask one of New Zealand's leading farming academics and find out why a vegetarian diet is better for you than a vegan one. Better still, chose one with a healthy mix of animal protein in there as well. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This South Otago dairy farmer and food technologist believes commercial scale, functional replicas of dairy ingredients made without animals will become commonplace within the next 10 years - and the dairy industry needs to prepare itself for the challenge. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Anna Benny, Dr Jacqueline Rowarth, Todd Clark, Blair Drysdale, Grant McCallum and Phil Duncan. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Derek Daniell, Jane Smith, Mark Chrystall, Hunter McGregor, Winston Peters and Jim Hopkins. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Vice President of Federated Farmers comments on Covid, road user charges and the cropping season on her Wairarapa farm. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our monthly look at the livestock selling scene with PGG Wrightson. Today we head to the Oamaru calf sale with a North Otago rugby legend. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We catch up with our Australian correspondent at Royal Easter Show in Sydney, where 850,000 punters are expected through the gates over the 12 days of the show. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We revisit a Tolaga Bay farmer, for the latest storm instalment, three weeks on from the first weather bomb to hit the battered region East Coast/Gisborne/Wairoa region. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Minister of Forestry and Tourism joins us to talk flooding, forestry and MAMILs. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Stuart Nash, Jeremy Murphy, Chris Russell, Barry Fox and Karen Williams. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Taihape farmer and Chair of the Rabobank Lower North Island Client Council, attended one of the bank's Financial Skills Workshops in Feilding yesterday. We asked him who could attend the workshops and, more importantly, who should attend! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our resident rural raconteur weighs in on the split in farmer groups, Groundswell, Jacinda Ardern and the divisive nature of co-governance being foisted upon an inherently egalitarian society. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.