The Country

The Chairman of FARM (Facts About Ruminant Methane) says the Ministry for the Environment is barking up the wrong tree when it characterises an increase in dairy cattle numbers as a major contributor to the increase in New Zealand greenhouse gas emissions since 1990. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Guess who turned up in our studio today to sex things up? None other than the YOLO farmer and Meat the Need co-founder. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The NZ First leader comments on agricultural GHG emissions and whether farmers are unfairly knee-capped on the altar of climate change. Plus, he comments on the Government's business acumen (or lack of) and says when it comes to supporting Ukraine, we need to send weapons, not kind thoughts. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

NIWA's weather guy on another kick in the guts for East Coast/Gisborne/Wairoa area as ex-tropical cyclone Fili homes in on the battered region. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Chris Brandolino, Winston Peters, Wayne Langford, Robin Grieve, Jim Hopkins and Mark Chrystall. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The chief executive of the Meat Industry Association comments on news an additional 500 meat processing workers from overseas will be allowed into NZ. And it will help us catch up on the 4-8 week delay in processing. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This independent economist reckons the Reserve Bank should only lift interest rates by 25 basis points ahead of tomorrow’s OCR announcement. Plus we look at a perfect storm brewing for the world economy. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This Kiwi sells NZ venison in Shanghai, where he's spent the past few weeks in Covid lockdown, only venturing outside his apartment for testing. We ask what impact the ongoing lockdowns will have on NZ exports to our largest market. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The straight-talking and award-winning North Otago farmer shoots from the hip on holiday hypocrisy, falling productivity and why we can learn a salient lesson from Sri Lanka. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We ask the Minister of Agriculture whether today’s border exemption announcement of working visas for 1580 migrant workers will actually bear fruit on-farm, in the meatworks and in our forests? Plus we preview next week's trade mission with the PM to Singapore and Japan. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Damien O’Connor, Jane Smith, Hunter McGregor, Cameron Bagrie and Sirma Karapeeva. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Monday's resident weather expert on unwelcome rain for the East Coast and hopefully some welcome rain for Southland. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Theis former lawyer and banker's research project for her Kellogg's Scholarship was done on the decline of rural community services. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today's farmer panel takes us to a very dry Maniototo with two high profile local cockies. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

One of New Zealand's leading sheep breeders shares his concerns about carbon farming creating an incentive to never log woodlots. Plus, he reckons government policy is knee-capping the productive sector. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Act Party leader agrees that co-governance will be a real political hot potato at next year's general election. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to David Seymour, Derek Daniell, Andrew Hore, Stu Duncan, Caroline Batley and Phil Duncan. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Christopher Luxon, Dr Jacqueline Rowarth, Emma Higgins, Mike Petersen, Jacinda Ardern and Farmer Tom Martin. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the absence of our political editor Barry Soper, we comment on Jacinda's Russian blacklisting, who is the most useless Minister in Cabinet, and how the week's been living and broadcasting with Covid. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

NIWA weather forecaster on the prospects of more rain for the south and a warmer April and May. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today's farmer panel on tennis, more pastoral farms going to forestry in Hawkes Bay and beyond, and more Southland lambs heading to Canterbury. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The CEO of Rockit Global Limited, winner of the Fiordland Lobster Company Award for Trade between NZ and China (Large Business Category) at the 2021 HSBC NZCTA China Business Awards presented in a virtual ceremony last evening. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Head of Insight NZX offers some insights on world trade, Meat the Need helping those in need and why she wrote a children's book about a miniature horse. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Julia Jones, Mark O’Donnell, Jeremy Rookes, Stu Loe, Chris Brandolino and Rowena Duncum. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our Australian correspondent talks about a year's rain in three months for Sydney, an FTA with India, and the nation's Chief Health Officer struggling to define "what a woman is". See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.