

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.
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Jul 25, 2025 • 6min
The Country 25/07/25: Stu Duncan and Stu Loe talk to Jamie Mackay
Today’s farmer panel chews the farming fat! Do record prices equate to record profits? And a timely reminder of farmer generosity.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jul 25, 2025 • 6min
The Country 25/07/25: Barry Soper talks to Jamie Mackay
We welcome our long-standing political correspondent back from paternal leave. A week dominated by butter-gate as Nicola and Maiki make a meal of it. Plus, we go back in time to 2004 and a long lunch with Winston, followed by the Southland Party at the Beehive.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jul 25, 2025 • 4min
The Country 25/07/25: Rachel Shearer talks to Jamie Mackay
The GM of PGG Wrightson Wool. The market continued to ease at yesterday’s North Island wool sale, though the rate of decline has slowed - SWI down 5 cents.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jul 25, 2025 • 4min
The Country 25/07/25: Ellie Templeton and Meg Miller talk to Jamie Mackay
We continue Innovation Week here on The Country with Herd-i, and today we talk to the four young women behind Nature’s Prime Leather Restore. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jul 25, 2025 • 2min
The Country 25/07/25: Hamish McKay talks to Jamie Mackay
We hand the mic over to next week’s host.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jul 24, 2025 • 37min
The Country Full Show: Thursday, July 24, 2025
Jamie Mackay talks to Mark Hooper, Rhys Gardner, Craig Hickman, Duncan Humm, Chris Russell, and Jeremy Rookes. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jul 24, 2025 • 9min
The Country 24/07/25: Mark Hooper talks to Jamie Mackay
Federated Farmers’ new banking spokesman on the latest survey ranking the banks, which has revealed how the country’s biggest rural lenders are performing in the eyes of farmers, by ranking the banks from best to worst. Also, the Com/Com dismissed the Feds’ complaint on net-zero banking.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jul 24, 2025 • 7min
The Country 24/07/25: Rhys Gardner talks to Jamie Mackay
We continue Innovation Week here on The Country with Herd-i. Today we talk to the founder and CEO of G-Factor - a virtual reality and graphics tech company that specialises in driver and rider training, particularly for quad bikes and side-by-sides.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jul 24, 2025 • 5min
The Country 24/07/25: Craig Hickman and Duncan Humm talk to Jamie Mackay
Today’s Mid Canterbury-based dairy and deer farmer panel on the price of butter, and who should be paying for it?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jul 24, 2025 • 5min
The Country 24/07/25: Chris Russell talks to Jamie Mackay
Our Australian correspondent on drought-breaking rain in the south, pasture pests taking over, the lifting of the US beef ban and the second Lions Test at the MCG.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.


