The Country

Jamie Mackay talks to Jane Smith, Michael Harvey, Jeremy Rookes, Chris Russell, and Rowena Duncum.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We chat with a North Otago farmer and award-winning environmentalist. She says (from a snow-clad hill) there’s never been a better time for New Zealand to come out of the “Climate Change closet”.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

RaboResearch senior analyst discusses the recently released RaboResearch dairy report, which looks at a new Indonesian school milk programme and the opportunities it could create for the NZ dairy sector. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Canterbury-based lifestyle/hobby farm correspondent talks about climate change, the incessant rain, solar farms, and GE in farming. Plus, why should he need to buy a duck shooting license?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We make our second trip across the ditch to catch up with our Sydney-based correspondent on the eve of the Australian election.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We catch up with “Roving Ro” at the Dairy Women’s Network Conference in Hamilton, where the 2025 Fonterra Dairy Woman of the Year will be crowned tonight.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jamie Mackay talks to Christopher Luxon, Scott Barrett, Hunter McGregor, and Jim Hopkins.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Prime Minister ponders falling Chinese milk production, dairy conversions being back on the table, the “tightest Budget” in a decade, where we can reduce Government spending, and his recent trip to the UK, Gallipoli and Rome.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The All Blacks captain, born and bred on a Taranaki dairy farm, is also the Kaiwaka Clothing brand ambassador. Today we talk farming, footy and whether he plans to milk cows when he retires.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Our Shanghai-based correspondent updates the state of the Chinese economy in the face of the US-China trade war.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.