The Country

 NIWA Weather Guy on the mixed weather that’s in store across NZ for the next few weeks.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Shane Jones, Dr Jenny Webster-Brown, Mark Warren, and Jason Te Brake.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

He refers to himself as the "Prince of the Provinces" but is he still the Prince of the Pine Trees? Does he still want to plant a billion trees? And what’s he going to do about the energy crisis and are the banks ripping us off? We let Matua Shane off the chain!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The co-author of a just-released white paper - Why Pines? - warns there will be a significant transition of sheep and beef farmers into pine forestry unless the current government policies and economic signals are reconsidered.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We head to the coalface to talk to a Hawke's Bay sheep and beef farmer and farm forester who asks “Is production/carbon forestry the new diamond mining?”See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We yarn to the new chief executive of Zespri about record returns for the industry.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Christopher Luxon, Todd Charteris, Richard Allen, and Hunter McGregor.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The PM ponders Darleen, the banking (and rural banking) enquiry,  the latest One News poll, David Seymour's divisive Treaty Principles Bill, and whether he gets paid enough to get yelled at by disgraced former politician, Tuku Morgan, in the pouring rain?    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We ask the chief executive of Rabobank whether he can sleep at night, and whether the banks are ripping farmers off, after Finance Minister Nicola Willis described competition amongst the banks as a "cosy pillow fight".   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Fonterra's Chicago-based President Global Markets Ingredients reviews a jaw-dropping good GDT auction overnight (+ 5.5%, with WMP up a whopping 7.2%).  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.