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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February 13, 2025 38 mins

Jamie Mackay talks to Toby Williams, Prof Julian Paton, Jane Smith, Barry Soper, and Chris Brandolino. 

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Federated Farmers' Meatloaf and Wool Chair (and Gisborne farmer) comments on the two-year anniversary of Cyclone Gabrielle today, National Lamb Day tomorrow and, of course, Valentine's Day!

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The owner of the country’s oldest Land Rover says the vehicle’s political detour since leaving Dunedin will contribute to life-saving research. The journey, Drive 4 Hearts, doubled as a fundraiser for the University of Auckland's Centre for Heart Research, which Prof Paton directs. On Monday, the vehicle — just the 20th ever made — arrived on Parliament grounds, reflecting a 1948 demonstration where it scale...

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Is a self-described "free range" North Otago farmer, Methane Science Accord founding member, NZ representative Global Farmer Roundtable and Environmentalist who says farmers are aghast at the environmentally-ignorant and economically-inept GHG emissions targets announced by the Coalition Government.

 

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NIWA Weather Guy on the Big Dry.

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Our Political Correspondent dissects a week dominated by the Luxon-Seymour scrap

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Jamie Mackay talks to Paul Allison, Damien O'Connor, Shane McManaway, Nancy Crawshaw, Jamie Cunninghame, and Chris Russell.

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We’re joined in the studio by the convenor of the judging panel for the NZ Rural Sports Awards.

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Labour’s trade spokesman, and former Minister of Agriculture, talks about keeping the supermarkets and banks honest, trade with India, David Seymour’s Land Rover stunt, and patsy questions in the House.

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Today’s Zanda McDonald Award panel features the founder and the 2024 winner.

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PGG Wrightson Livestock’s National Dairy Specialist is based in the farming capital of New Zealand, Feilding.

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Our Australian correspondent talks about the lowest wool production in over a century.

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Jamie Mackay talks to Shane Jones, Ben Picton, Craig Wiggins, and Blair Drysdale.

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The Prince of the Provinces talks about his big fisheries announcement today, his anti-Greens rant yesterday in the House, and why he's determined to fast-track progress in a "remarkably short period of time". 

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Rabobank's senior economist previews next week's (Feb 19) OCR announcement and reviews the bank's latest trade report - Trump Tariffs: The Implications for NZ and Australia.

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Mid Canterbury farmer on the whereabouts of Professor Julian Paton's Series 1 Land Rover. He also updates us on what he's been up to lately as a rural health advocate.

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We ask a Southland arable farmer to come off the bench to fill in for Professor Julian Paton and his Series 1 Land Rover.

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Internal parasites and drench resistance are serious threats to livestock production. In part one of a special four-part podcast series, The Country’s Rowena Duncum is joined by B+LNZ Head of Science & Research Dr Suzi Keeling to look at new initiatives underway as part of the B+LNZ livestock internal parasite research programme, the reasons why this research is so important, and work underway globally to tackle this issu...

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Jamie Mackay talks to Nathan Guy, Alan Thomson, Christopher Luxon, Todd McClay, Jon Pemberton, Todd Charteris, Emma Crutchley, and Jo Luxton.

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We catch up with the Meat Industry Association chair for an overview of the sector, including carbon farming’s effect on hill country sheep and beef farmers, and the “Trump factor”.

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