The Country

Jamie Mackay talks to Bernadette Hunt, Derek Daniell, Chris Hipkins, John Duffy, and Chris Russell.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Federated Farmers Southland is calling for local farmers to boycott Fish & Game and remove fishing access across their land. We catch up with an executive member of Southland Feds to find out why.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We ask one of New Zealand’s leading sheep breeders if the industry has a future. Are farmers climate change heroes rather than villains? And why should farmers support “Growing Future Farmers”?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In the interests of political balance, we catch up with the Leader of the Opposition. But are we both wasting our time having this conversation?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We take our monthly look at the state of the market with the team from PGG Wrightson Livestock.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our Australian correspondent comments on the supermarkets going to war over milk, and Aussies not eating their greens. Plus, could owning a car in urban Australia become more problematic?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Christopher Luxon, Nancy Crawshaw, Tessa Chartres, Tom Young, and Bryce McKenzie.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We catch up with the Prime Minister on the eve of the East Asia Summit in Laos, to discuss boats, banks, the OCR, a CGT, and how to pay for all the infrastructure we are fast-tracking. Plus is he telling porkies about the cost of the new Dunedin hospital?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We catch up with the 2024 Zanda McDonald Award winners on their Australian mentoring trip. The New Zealand winner, Nancy Crawshaw, 27, is an extension officer for Angus Australia (based in New Zealand), and the Australian winner Tessa Chartres, 32, is the general manager of business development at Murray Irrigation.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Affco’s national livestock manager was right when he foreshadowed the closure of meat processing plants and the loss of hundreds of jobs due to shrinking livestock numbers. But is there more to come for the troubled sheep meat industry?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.