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.
Episodes
Jamie Mackay talks to Chris Brandolino, Mark de Lautour, Tim Dangen, Rachel Shearer, Hamish McKay, and Barry Soper.
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It’s Halloween, and our US-born weatherman from Earth Sciences New Zealand kicks off the show to discuss some very scary stuff!
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From London to Invercargill, the chief executive of Open Country Dairy joins us to discuss the Joseph Parker fight, the Southland storms, and the Fonterra vote.
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Today’s one-man panel follows on from his sister, and fellow Young Farmer of the Year, Emma Poole, who was on yesterday’s show. He talks about the Southland storms and agrees to disagree with his sister over the Fonterra vote.
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The GM of PGG Wrightson Wool takes her monthly look at the state of the market.
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This week on McKay on Sport, we discuss the All Blacks’ test selection and whether a Grand Slam will make the year a success. Plus, the Dame Noeline Taurua netball saga, and the Wayleggo Cup in Ashburton.
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Our political commentator ponders the artist formerly known as Prince Andrew, Trump and Luxon at Apec and Winston being a grumpy old man barking at cars and yelling at clouds.
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Jamie Mackay talks to Miles Hurrell, Emma Poole, Dr Jacqueline Rowarth, Mark Copeland, and Chris Russell.
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Fonterra’s chief executive comments on the overwhelming YES vote from Fonterra farmer shareholders to sell the consumer brands business to Lactalis. The deal was expected to deliver a tax-free capital return of about $3.2 billion to 8000-plus shareholding farms throughout New Zealand. The average return to farmer shareholders would be around $392,000. That’s about 0.7% of GDP. But not everybody’s happy. Just ask W...
Today’s farmer panel is one man down, but it does feature the 2023 FMG Young Farmer of the Year and Waikato vet and dairy farmer.
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From a cold and wet Waikato, one of our leading primary sector academics talks Fonterra, generators and the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation conference she attended in Rome on our behalf.
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We catch up with the New Zealand Dog Trial Test Team captain. The annual Trans-Tasman Sheep Dog Trial Test runs over two days from tomorrow at the Ashburton A&P Show, battling it out to win the prestigious Wayleggo Cup.
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Our Australian correspondent talks Trump, record lamb and beef prices, why net zero is an ideology, not a policy, and agriculture topping the Uni student satisfaction survey.
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Jamie Mackay talks to Ray Smith, Todd Charteris, Tracy Brown, Hunter McGregor, Jack Jordon, and Blair Drysdale.
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The Director General of MPI on helping weather-battered farmers, and why our new methane emissions targets are absolutely achievable without reducing animal protein production.
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Rabobank’s chief executive comments on tomorrow’s Fonterra shareholder vote, the adverse weather, and his upcoming trip to the Windy City - Chicago, as opposed to Invercargill.
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The Chair of DairyNZ addresses the animal welfare issues surrounding cows not being milked (or being milked OAD) because of power cuts.
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Our Shanghai-based correspondent is hopeful Trump can cut a trade deal with President Xi at Apec, for the good of us all.
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This King Country sheep and beef farmer is also New Zealand's top axeman. He won the Stihl Timbersports World Championship individual event in Milan, Italy, last weekend for the first time. He went one better than his frustratingly close second-place finish at last year’s event.
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This Southland arable farmer says the 2025 spring is, unbelievably, worse than 2024’s awful offering.
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