The Country

The Country

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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October 30, 2024 38 mins

Jamie Mackay talks to Wayne Langford, Shane Jones, Mike Casey, and Chris Russell.

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The President of Federated Farmers comments on a surge this year in memberships, upcoming workshops for share farming next week, advocacy around fresh water, and why his son celebrated finishing school by cleaning the tractor! 

 

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We find the Prince of the Provinces in Seventh Heaven, like a pig in muck, at a 9000-strong mining conference in Sydney, but what has be been up to in Singapore? What has he done to upset the Greenies in the Coromandel? And who is best for NZ - Kamala or Trump?

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Speaking at Digital Ag Conference in Wagga Wagga is where we find this entrepreneurial Central Otago cherry grower and poster boy for electric vehicles. But are EVs going out of fashion? Do they have any resale value anymore? And how did his orchard survive the Labour Weekend snow?

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We make out third trip across the ditch today to catch up with our Aussie correspondent to talk about beer being the barometer of a good harvest, why a cancer cloud hangs over a methane emissions panacea, why Albo could be for the high jump, and has the All Blacks' haka had its day?

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Jamie Mackay talks to Christopher Luxon, Jane Smith, Todd, Clark, and Blair Drysdale.

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The PM ponders the US election (but not the result), fast-tracking building consents, support for a CGT, private capital for KiwiBank, and why he hasn't sacked Andrew Bayley.

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Is a North Otago farmer and award-winning environmentalist. But has she been smoking something in the tailing pen up on the hills? What can she possibly agree with Chloe Swarbrick about? 

 

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We ask a Southland arable farmer if rice is the only thing he can plant at the moment as the deep south battles through one of the worst springs in living memory.

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We ask our Kentucky-based US farming correspondent if a lingering drought for much of his country could spell good news for New Zealand farmers? And one week out from the election we ask a true-blue Republican to call the result. 

 

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Jamie Mackay talks to Phil Duncan, Kate Scott, Greg Menzies and Kyle Miller, Mark de Lautour, and Adam Thompson. 

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 Monday's resident weather expert, fronts up on a Tuesday, as we discuss the divided United States and the bits of our country that are too wet or too dry.

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Entries close on Thursday (Oct 31) for the 2025 Zanda McDonald Awards. Today we ask a 2022 finalist, and a leading young influencer in the primary sector, why you should enter? 

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 We catch up with the new chief executive of Horticulture NZ, who takes on the role at time when the industry is on a bit of a high.

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Alongside Emerson's and Heartland Chips, today we launch The Farmers Pour  beer and The Farmers Cut potato chips.

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The chief executive of Open Country Dairy comments on a booming production start to the new season (with the notable exception of Southland). But can we find a home for all this milk? Are we still looking at $9? And what could a Trump Presidency mean for NZ dairy farmers?

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Rowena Duncum talks to Nigel Woodhead, Laura Koot, Angus Gidley-Baird, Hamish Goatley and Eibhlin Lynch, and Todd McClay.

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Rowena Duncum talks to Chris Brandolino, Jamie Mackay, Stu Duncan, Stu Loe, Doug Laing, and Toby Williams.

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Niwa's principal scientist has a Labour Weekend forecast and there's rain, sun, wind and snow, which he says is typical for the "teenager of seasons".

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Today's special guest is none other than The Country's host, who regales us with tales of his holiday in the United States, where he has been asking Americans who they're voting for.

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