The Country
NZME
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, Hokonui and Gold Sport.
Episodes
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Nov 1, 2024 • 6min
The Country 01/11/24: Michael Every talks to Jamie Mackay
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.
Nov 1, 2024 • 7min
The Country 01/11/24: Nadia Lim and Carlos Bagrie talk to Jamie Mackay
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.
Nov 1, 2024 • 4min
The Country 01/11/24: Chris Brandolino talks to Jamie Mackay
NIWA's Weather Guy offers a different kind of forecast - for the US election.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Nov 1, 2024 • 3min
The Country 01/11/24: Barry Soper talks to Jamie Mackay
We ask New Zealand's longest serving political journalist to pick the US election. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Oct 31, 2024 • 38min
The Country Full Show: Thursday, October 31, 2024
Jamie Mackay talks to Wayne Langford, Shane Jones, Mike Casey, and Chris Russell.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Oct 31, 2024 • 7min
The Country 31/10/24: Wayne Langford talks to Jamie Mackay
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.
Oct 31, 2024 • 7min
The Country 31/10/24: Shane Jones talks to Jamie Mackay
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.
Oct 31, 2024 • 6min
The Country 31/10/24: Mike Casey talks to Jamie Mackay
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.
Oct 31, 2024 • 6min
The Country 31/10/24: Chris Russell talks to Jamie Mackay
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.
Oct 30, 2024 • 38min
The Country Full Show: Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Jamie Mackay talks to Christopher Luxon, Jane Smith, Todd, Clark, and Blair Drysdale.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
