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The Country

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Jamie Mackay delivers your daily fix of everything going on in NZ's biggest industry, along with a generous side-serve of news, sports and politics. The Country from Newstalk ZB, iHeartCountry NZ, Hokonui & iHeartRadio.

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NZME

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News

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www.thecountry.co.nz

Latest episode

Jul 10, 2026

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Episodes

The Country 05/11/24: Greg Millar talks to Jamie Mackay 05.11.2024

The National Fundraising Manager for the IHC Calf and Rural Scheme talks about recorded weaner calf prices for the charity. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Country 05/11/24: Farmer Tom Martin talks to Jamie Mackay 05.11.2024

Our UK correspondent talks politics, footy, and weather, with the weather seeming to be the only thing playing ball for farmers at the moment. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Country 05/11/24: Rick Ladd talks to Jamie Mackay 05.11.2024

The national sales manager for Brandt has made his way from Gisborne to share a drop of The Farmers Pour and a few Farmers Cut chips with The Country. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Country Full Show: Monday, November 4 , 2024 04.11.2024

Jamie Mackay talks to David Seymour, Nathan Guy, Samuel Whitelock, and Phil Duncan. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Country 04/10/24: David Seymour talks to Jamie Mackay 04.11.2024

The Act Party Leader and soon-to-be Deputy PM talks about a peaceful transition with Winston, gun laws, why he's no fan of a CGT, and the prospects for the US election. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Country 04/10/24: Nathan Guy talks to Jamie Mackay 04.11.2024

Today we find the Chairman of the Meat Industry Association (and former Minister of Agriculture) in Shanghai where's he's promoting red meat at an importer's expo. We also discuss what a Trump win would mean for NZ farmers.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Country 04/10/24: Samuel Whitelock talks to Jamie Mackay 04.11.2024

The former All Black great and current Farmstrong Ambassador talks about life after rugby, farming in Hawkes Bay, and the PTS Logistics Charity Golf Tournament on November 21 at Wairakei. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Country 04/10/24: Phil Duncan talks to Jamie Mackay 04.11.2024

Monday's resident weather guy talks Kamala and a dry November.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Rabobank Best of The Country: November 2, 2024 01.11.2024

Jamie Mackay talks to Kate Scott, Shane Jones, Mike Casey, Michael Every, and Nadia Lim and Carlos Bagrie.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Country Full Show: Friday, November 1, 2024 01.11.2024

Jamie Mackay talks to Todd McClay, Michael Every, Nadia Lim and Carlos Bagrie, Chris Brandolino, and Barry Soper.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Country 01/11/24: Todd McClay talks to Jamie Mackay 01.11.2024

Rabobank's Singapore-based Global Strategist looks at how the outcome of the US Presidential election will potentially affect NZ and World Trade, how a Trump win would affect the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, and whether 2025 will be a better year for the world economy than 2024?   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Country 01/11/24: Michael Every talks to Jamie Mackay 01.11.2024

Rabobank's Singapore-based Global Strategist looks at how the outcome of the US Presidential election will potentially affect NZ and World Trade, how a Trump win would affect the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, and whether 2025 will be a better year for the world economy than 2024? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Country 01/11/24: Nadia Lim and Carlos Bagrie talk to Jamie Mackay 01.11.2024

Today's farmer panel is a true farming partnership! We catch up with the Celebrity Power Couple of NZ farming as we look back on Season 2 of Nadia's Farm and ask if there'll be a Season 3?   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Country 01/11/24: Chris Brandolino talks to Jamie Mackay 01.11.2024

 NIWA's Weather Guy offers a different kind of forecast - for the US election. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Country 01/11/24: Barry Soper talks to Jamie Mackay 01.11.2024

We ask New Zealand's longest serving political journalist to pick the US election.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Country Full Show: Thursday, October 31, 2024 31.10.2024

Jamie Mackay talks to Wayne Langford, Shane Jones, Mike Casey, and Chris Russell. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Country 31/10/24: Wayne Langford talks to Jamie Mackay 31.10.2024

The President of Federated Farmers comments on a surge this year in memberships, upcoming workshops for share farming next week, advocacy around fresh water, and why his son celebrated finishing school by cleaning the tractor!    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Country 31/10/24: Shane Jones talks to Jamie Mackay 31.10.2024

We find the Prince of the Provinces in Seventh Heaven, like a pig in muck, at a 9000-strong mining conference in Sydney, but what has be been up to in Singapore? What has he done to upset the Greenies in the Coromandel? And who is best for NZ - Kamala or Trump? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Country 31/10/24: Mike Casey talks to Jamie Mackay 31.10.2024

Speaking at Digital Ag Conference in Wagga Wagga is where we find this entrepreneurial Central Otago cherry grower and poster boy for electric vehicles. But are EVs going out of fashion? Do they have any resale value anymore? And how did his orchard survive the Labour Weekend snow? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Country 31/10/24: Chris Russell talks to Jamie Mackay 31.10.2024

We make out third trip across the ditch today to catch up with our Aussie correspondent to talk about beer being the barometer of a good harvest, why a cancer cloud hangs over a methane emissions panacea, why Albo could be for the high jump, and has the All Blacks' haka had its day? See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Country Full Show: Wednesday, October 30, 2024 30.10.2024

Jamie Mackay talks to Christopher Luxon, Jane Smith, Todd, Clark, and Blair Drysdale. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Country 30/10/24: Christopher Luxon talks to Jamie Mackay 30.10.2024

The PM ponders the US election (but not the result), fast-tracking building consents, support for a CGT, private capital for KiwiBank, and why he hasn't sacked Andrew Bayley. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Country 30/10/24: Jane Smith talks to Jamie Mackay 30.10.2024

Is a North Otago farmer and award-winning environmentalist. But has she been smoking something in the tailing pen up on the hills? What can she possibly agree with Chloe Swarbrick about?    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Country 30/10/24: Blair Drysdale talks to Jamie Mackay 30.10.2024

We ask a Southland arable farmer if rice is the only thing he can plant at the moment as the deep south battles through one of the worst springs in living memory. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Country 30/10/24: Todd Clark talks to Jamie Mackay 30.10.2024

We ask our Kentucky-based US farming correspondent if a lingering drought for much of his country could spell good news for New Zealand farmers? And one week out from the election we ask a true-blue Republican to call the result.    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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