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 Rob Hewett, Mike Casey, Andrew Hoggard, Grant McCallum, Kevin Barrett, and Phil Duncan.
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We catch up with the AgriZero board chairman to learn more about Farmlands and Alliance joining the AgriZeroNZ partnership, alongside other industry investors that jointly own 50% of AgriZeroNZ: The a2 Milk Company, ANZ, ANZCO, ASB, BNZ, Fonterra, Rabobank, Ravensdown, Silver Fern Farms and Synlait.
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The National Party’s Electrify NZ 2.0policy has been given the tick of approval from Federated Farmers (and the Electric Cherry Guy), which says energy is a major concern for farmers this election.
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Today’s panel features two dairy farmers with a good off-farm income in Wellington.
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We stick with the dairy farming theme as we talk farming, footy and organics with a Taranaki cow cocky.
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Monday’s resident weather expert.
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Jamie Mackay talks to Paul Henry, Damien O'Connor, Ben Picton and Winston Peters.
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Jamie Mackay talks to Chris Brandolino, Tim Dangen, Tom Slee, Sir David Fagan, Marc Gascoigne, and Barry Soper.
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It’s “Friday’s Favourite Weatherman” from Earth Sciences NZ with his long-range forecast.
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Today’s Southland farmer panel features the 2022 and 2026 Young Farmers of the Year.
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We talk to a shearing legend, busy fencing on his Te Kūiti farm, ahead of the first event for competition season, the NZ Merino Shears in Alexandra.
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This month’s Farmstrong farmer is a well-known Cambridge cow cocky who’s biking the length of the country on his Top2Toe2Talk Tour, intending to have 3000 conversations with rural folk.
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Our political correspondent ponders Winston Peter for Prime Minister! Stranger things have happened.
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Jamie Mackay talks to Winston Peters, Ray Smith, Jane Smith, and Chris Russell.
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The NZ First leader is at his combative best as he educates us on the Indian FTA, National Super, the Opportunity Party, Chloe Swarbrick as Finance Minister, whether he still wants to be Foreign Minister, plus he throws in some free healthy diet advice for good measure!
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The director general of MPI comments on methane mitigation and whether we’ve broken our climate change policies. We also discuss El Niño, bird flu, and the yellow-legged hornet.
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North Otago farmer and environmentalist gets stuck into the Opportunity Party and passes judgement on last night’s Rural Issues Debate at Mystery Creek.
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Our Australian correspondent talks bird flu, diesel prices, fertiliser prices, wheat prices and whether he’s most looking forward to the NRL Final or the Bledisloe Cup.
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Jamie Mackay talks to Christopher Luxon, Kent Bacus, Ben Picton, Dominic Jones and Colin Hurst.
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The Prime Minister ponders the curse of being an Air New Zealand CEO. Plus, we discuss tonight’s Rural Issues Debate, the diesel crisis, the age of eligibility for National Super, Chippy’s flawed CGT and the dangers of strategic voting.
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