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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Apr 14, 2025 • 6min
The Country 14/04/25: Tom Young talks to Jamie Mackay
We ask Affco’s national livestock manager who’s going to pay Trump’s tariff: American consumers or New Zealand farmers? And with an insatiable demand for our red meat at the moment, will our processing companies enter into an end-of-season procurement war?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 14, 2025 • 8min
The Country 14/04/25: Dom Jones talks to Jamie Mackay
We look at the very healthy state of the kiwifruit industry with the managing director of Origin Capital Partners - a large-scale corporate grower.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 11, 2025 • 40min
Rabobank Best of The Country: April 12, 2025
Jamie Mackay talks to Te Radar, Amy Renelle, Shane Jones, Nathan Guy, and Barry Soper. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 11, 2025 • 39min
The Country Full Show: Friday, April 11, 2025
Jamie Mackay talks to Chris Brandolino, Nathan Guy, Barry Soper, Stu Duncan and Stu Loe.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 11, 2025 • 7min
The Country 11/04/25: Chris Brandolino talks to Jamie Mackay
Niwa’s principal scientist on whether the drought is over and the latest on the merger with MetService.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 11, 2025 • 6min
The Country 11/04/25: Nathan Guy talks to Jamie Mackay
The former Minister of Agriculture and current chairman of the Meat Industry Association shares a birthday with Winston Peters.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 11, 2025 • 8min
The Country 11/04/25: Barry Soper talks to Jamie Mackay
On his last day before heading away on paternity leave, our long-standing political correspondent celebrates Winston Peters’s 80th birthday and their nearly five-decade-long careers in politics.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 11, 2025 • 4min
The Country 11/04/25: Stu Duncan and Stu Loe talk to Jamie Mackay
Today’s farmer panel talks weather, meat and wool prices and footy.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 10, 2025 • 38min
The Country Full Show: Thursday, April 10, 2025
Jamie Mackay talks to Shane Jones, Andy Borland, Amy Blaikie, Andrew Gibson, and Chris Russell.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Apr 10, 2025 • 7min
The Country 10/04/25: Shane Jones talks to Jamie Mackay
The self-titled Prince of the Provinces, Matua Shane, lets rip on wool in government buildings, pine trees, Trump and the Greens.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
