The Country

We ask the Prime Minister whether we're finally starting to see "green shoots" in the fight against Covid? Plus, we address vaccine hesitancy, a lack of communication with the Groundswell protest group, anti-competitive behaviour from the supermarket duopoly and whether James Shaw is tone deaf. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

What happens to carbon forests when they fall over, die or rot? What happens to the remaining land? And does carbon farming have "the potential to bring about the greatest land change uses, both intended and unintended, that NZ has seen in the last 100 years." See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Interviews are with Craig Wiggins, Bruce Cameron, Don Carson and Farmer Tom Martin. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rabobank's senior dairy analyst explains the rationale behind the bank's recent decision to lower its forecast milk price to $7-80 for the 2021/22 season. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Farmstrong's Ambassador comments on his own mental health after being left to cool his heels on this side of the Tasman. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Interviews are with Phil Duncan, Sam Whitelock, Megan Hands, Tom Young and Emma Higgins. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Interviews are with Professor Keith Woodford, Marc Rivers, Tangaroa Walker, Todd Charteris, Jane Smith and Chris Russell. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

NIWA's top dog weather guy (and native New Yorker) talks being up close to 9/11 and gives us an update on the windy weather. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today's panel ponders life under Level 2, farming and footy. Plus, where were they on 9/11. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We find our Australian correspondent on the Nullabor Plain halfway between Perth and Adelaide. We talk 9/11, the lucky state in the Lucky Country, Mad Cow Disease, wool and rugby. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Is a North Otago farmer and award-winning environmentalist who's in an ongoing battle with Stats NZ. Plus, she's none-too pleased with James Shaw's carbon emissions at a time when the farming community is in the gun from the government. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Interviews are with Chris Brandolino, Jane Smith, Chris Russell, Tim Myers, Kevin Smiley Barrett and Barry Soper. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Country Sport Breakfast: Fonterra's Managing Director of Co-operative Affairs Mike Cronin tells BK all about the co-op's 2021 apprentice intake programme. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This Queenstown farmer had a near death experience with a heart attack. Today he offers some heart health tips from the horse's mouth. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Did the President of Federated Farmers call Groundswell crazy? Has the government backed down over freshwater reforms? How's calving going on his Manawatu farm? And how can we enter Federated Farmers' Safer Farms photo competition? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

National's under-fire leader turns the heat back on James Shaw and the hypocrisy of him travelling to Glasgow in November for a climate change talkfest with a huge carbon footprint. Plus, we discuss the Mongrel Mob, Tova O'Brien and 9/11 twenty years on. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Director General of MPI comments on how well the primary sector is dealing with Covid lockdown plus we look at breeding a new beef animal with a "smaller environmental hoof-print". See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Interviews are with Andrew Hoggard, Judith Collins, Ray Smith, Grant McMaster and Scott Duggan. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our China-based correspondent is a Kiwi selling NZ venison in Shanghai. Today he talks about the joys of discovering Fonterra's UHT yoghurt (courtesy of a pub raffle), why freight into Shanghai airport is proving a real issue and the latest on the vaccine roll-out in the world's most populous nation. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rabobank's chief executive announces the winners of the 2021 Rabobank Good Deeds Initiative. And we head to Taranaki, South Canterbury and Southland with some good news and a helping hand for three wonderful rural community projects. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Today's panel features the Labour MP for Wairarapa and the National MP for Invercargill. Today we ask why we can't build anything in this country (namely the now defunct Wairarapa water storage scheme) without getting bogged down by the RMA, the consenting process and the likes of Greenpeace and Forest and Bird. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fonterra's CFO comments on a very good GDT auction overnight (plus 4 per cent, WMP + 3.3 per cent, SMP + 7.3 per cent). Plus we look at new season volumes, world production and the shipping challenges facing the industry. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Tangaroa Walker is an inspirational Southland dairy farmer and the man behind Farm4Life and on-line education platform The Hub. He's also "evangelical about the joys of rural life". See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Interviews are with Kieran McAnulty, Penny Simmonds, Marc Rivers, Tangaroa Walker, Todd Charteris, Janelle Downs and Hunter McGregor. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Damn it! The chief executive of Irrigation NZ laments the loss (in the meantime, at least) of the Wairarapa community water storage scheme. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.