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, iHeartCountry NZ, Hokonui & iHeartRadio.
Episodes
Jamie Mackay talks to Christopher Luxon, Jane Smith, Tom Slee, Bruce Weir, and Mike McIntyre.
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The PM ponders Fieldays, "friendly fire" from Winston and whether wilding pines should attract carbon credits.
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North Otago farmer, award-winning environmentalist and champion Angus bull breeder. Today we talk about record beef breeding prices and "woke eggs" at Sainsburys.
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We continue our series profiling the seven FMG Young Farmer of the Year Grand Finalists, and today we yarn to Otago/Southland region winner, a young man with great farming pedigree who was quite literally "born" to win the title.
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Rabobank's GM of Country Banking comments on the bank's latest Rural Confidence Survey, which sees the Middle East conflict tempering farmer confidence but producers remaining upbeat about the agri sector outlook.
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Jarden's Head of Derivatives comments on last night's GDT Auction (down 2.8%). WMP -3.1%, SMP -3.6%, Butter -2.4% and Cheese -3.4%.
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Jamie Mackay talks to Cameron Bagrie, Damien O'Connor, Mark Warren, Ed Laver, and Todd Clark.
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An independent economist offers his thoughts on Trump's peace deal, oil prices, inflation, interest and exchange rates, and why we should be keeping a keen eye on the US Federal Reserve.
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Labour's trade spokesman and former Minister of Agriculture comments on the upside for world trade if peace breaks out permanently in the Middle East. Plus, we ask where Labour's ag policy is and why Labour's two main election policy platforms (CGT and Public Transport) are so poorly targeted.
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A Hawke's Bay sheep and beef farmer who talks about black gold and black hats. A Taimate Angus bull sold for a record $168,000, with 102 on the catalogue averaging close to $24k.
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We continue our series profiling the seven FMG Young Farmer of the Year grand finalists, and today we yarn to East Coast region winner, a young man who's no stranger to big competitions, having competed in the Coast to Coast and Godzone.
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We ask our US farming correspondent about Trump's peace deal, gas prices, beef prices and why sheep farming is a precarious occupation.
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Jamie Mackay talks to Andrew Hoggard, Grant McCallum, David Reesby, Wendy Paul, Dr Jacqueline Rowarth, and Phil Duncan.
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Today's farmer/politician panel reflects on Fieldays, how to use a chainsaw, and Labour's new public transport election policy.
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In the first of our series profiling the seven FMG Young Farmer of the Year Grand Finalists, we talk to the hometown favourite representing the host region, Taranaki - Manawatū.
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We ask the chief executive of Growing Future Farmers what GFF actually does. What needs to change to meet the evolving sector needs? And why is GFF moving into dairy?
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One of New Zealand's leading primary sector academics talks about Innovation and AI at Fieldays.
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Monday's weather man disagrees with the Hosk over the Super El Nino.
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Jamie talks to Christopher Luxon and Todd McClay, Ray Smith, Kate Acland and Kate Scott, and Winston Peters.
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Jamie Mackay talks to Sir David Fagan, Mike Green, Emma Poole, Adam Thompson, Kevin "Smiley" Barrett, Riley Kennedy, Tom Young, Winston Peters, Campbell Parker, Tania Houghton, and Hunter Darry.
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