The Country

Monday's resident weather expert says expect a burst of windy and wet weather mid to later this week nationwide from the west,  then a wintry lower South Island this weekend after a brief mid week warm up. 

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The Federated Farmers Dairy Chair is signing off this week at the Primary Industry Summit in Christchurch. We look at two of his biggest achievements in the role.

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We head to the Coastal Rugby Club in South Taranaki to talk to the most successful sire in New Zealand rugby as the first All Blacks squad of 2025 is named.

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Is a South Otago dairy farmer who's running 364 kms from Mt Cook to Akaroa in his gumboots to raise money for the Otago Community Hospice. We ask why? 

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Our Lifestyle/Hobby correspondent comments on record beef bull sales, Trump and the All 

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Jamie Mackay talks to Damien O'Connor, Emma Higgins, Winston Peters, Jane Smith, and Hamish McKay.

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Jamie Mackay talks to Brendan Attrill, Peter Newbold, Chris Russell, Hamish McKay, and Rowena Duncum.

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We track down the recipient of the Gordon Stephenson Trophy and newly-crowned Ambassador for Sustainable Farming and Growing for 2025 - a South Taranaki dairy farmer, who’s about to jump on a plane to go riding dirt bikes in a Mongolian desert!

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How much is your farm worth? We take our monthly look at the state of the rural real estate market with the GM of PGG Wrightson Real Estate.

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Our Australian correspondent comments on a great State of Origin game in Perth, lamb and milk prices, and mustering with drones and e-bikes.

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We preview the Super Rugby final with The Country’s new fill-in host.

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After joining The Country team in 2018, we farewell Ro, but she will not be lost to us!

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Jamie Mackay talks to Winston Peters, Jane Smith, Mike McIntyre, and Warwick Catto and Jamie Strang. 

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The NZ First leader and former Deputy PM steps in for the PM who's doing the business in China. We talk about the perilous state of the world geopolitically, a trade deal with Indonesia, missing Fieldays, his political adversaries, the Green Party and the Green Parrot.

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 We let an outspoken North Otago farmer off the chain and she reckons we should be more worried about Global War-ing than Global Warming. We also talk about the Green Party's fiscal folly released yesterday. And we finished by talking bull and a record price for an Angus Black Beauty. 

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Jarden's Head of Commodities comment's on last night's GDT Auction - the second of the new 25/26 season - down 1% (WMP down 2.1%). Plus we ask if Fonterra was too optimistic with its $10 opening forecast milk price.

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We catch up with two iconic and long-standing judges for tonight's BFEAs in Wellington.

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Jamie Mackay talks to Helen and Ian Burgess, Todd Clark, Sandra Matthews, Dr Beata Bukosa, and Damien O'Connor.

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