The Country

The Waitomo sheep, beef and forestry farmer, Steelfort chief executive and Tauranga voter is a man who has some decisions to make in the next few months! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This high-profile radio celebrity has gone farming with her partner in Wairarapa and is promoting an online fitness programme for rural folk. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Polly Harding, John McOviney, Dr Jacqueline Rowarth and Todd Clark. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today’s panel features a Central Hawkes Bay sheep farmer and a Northland cow cocky, as we discuss rain, Simon, Winston and space! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today is International Day of Forests. We catch up with one of NZ's leading foresters for a closer look at an industry that now has two income streams - timber and carbon credits. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The voice behind the FMG Young Farmer Contest joins us in the studio in Dunedin to promote his one man show 'Intoxicana' at the Dunedin Fringe Festival. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Phil Duncan from WeatherWatch is Monday’s resident weather expert, who comments on record rainfall in the north (with Auckland making headlines) and a lingering drought in the south. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Te Radar, Phil Duncan, Mike Cronin, Roger Dickie, Grant McCallum and Steve Wyn-Harris. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Jim Hopkins, Damien O'Connor, Simon Bridges, Wes Lefroy and Winston Peters. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We catch up with the blokes on bikes. The final week has featured a rest day and some golf in Wanaka. Then Bruce and Paul tackled the Crown Range on route to Queenstown, then on to Lumsden and are finishing in Bluff today. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The chief executive of Norwood gives us his take on the state of the nation and the state of the world. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

National's agriculture spokeswoman on Simon Bridges, food inflation and Three Waters. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Affco's National Livestock Manager on the challenges of processing stock with covid and dry conditions really starting to bite. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Along with his wife Sarah, Richard farms Glendene Station on the shores of both Lake Wanaka and Hawea, where they run a substantial agri-tourism/hunting business. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We ask our NIWA weather guy for a rain dance! See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Chris Brandolino, Tom Young, Richard Burdon, Barbara Kuriger, Tim Myers, Bruce Cotterill and Paul Muir. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our Australian correspondent comments on Europe's breadbasket, Ukraine, floods and drought across the Tasman and Warnie's funeral. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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

The West Coast dairy farmer and former President of Federated Farmers is on the Alps2Ocean bike ride. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Is the Green Party co-leader really just a Labour politician in disguise? And is consultation around He Waka Eke Noa and Three Waters a waste of time if we're doomed as per the IPCC Working Group II report? And how will the Russian/Ukraine war play out? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We find the DairyNZ chair in Missouri USA as we talk about He Waka Eke Noa consultation concluding here in NZ. Plus we ask of the two options presented - the farm level levy and the processor level levy - which are farmers leaning toward as a preference? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Jim van der Poel, James Shaw, Katie Milne, Peter Newbold and Chris Russell. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the absence of the blokes on bikes (for the second time this week!) we catch up with rural communicator of the year, Craig "Wiggy" Wiggins who talks about men’s health from the Timaru racetrack. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rabobank's Sydney-based senior agricultural analyst comments on the NSW floods plus global fertiliser and grain prices heading skyward as a result of the Russian/Ukraine War. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fonterra's Chief Operating Officer updates what Fonterra's is going to do in Russia and the overnight GDT auction which resulted in a somewhat surprising 0.9 per cent drop (WMP -2.1 per cent, SMP 1.6 per cent) when the futures market was predicting a rise. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.