The Country

NIWA weather guy on the wind in Wellington and the rain in Canterbury. And a duck hunting forecast.

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The 2025 Dairy Woman of the Year is a Waikato farmer and teacher/manager at the Owl Farm.

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A leading primary sector academic disagrees that it's time for a rethink for New Zealand's meat and dairy brand.

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This Wairarapa farmer and philanthropist has been inducted into the Business Hall of Fame. Last time we chatted, he was in the middle of Cyclone Alfred on the Gold Coast. How did that compare to the Wahine storm of 1968?

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Today's farmer panel - with one sleep to go!

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Jamie Mackay talks to Jane Smith, Michael Harvey, Jeremy Rookes, Chris Russell, and Rowena Duncum.

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We chat with a North Otago farmer and award-winning environmentalist. She says (from a snow-clad hill) there’s never been a better time for New Zealand to come out of the “Climate Change closet”.

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RaboResearch senior analyst discusses the recently released RaboResearch dairy report, which looks at a new Indonesian school milk programme and the opportunities it could create for the NZ dairy sector. 

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Canterbury-based lifestyle/hobby farm correspondent talks about climate change, the incessant rain, solar farms, and GE in farming. Plus, why should he need to buy a duck shooting license?

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We make our second trip across the ditch to catch up with our Sydney-based correspondent on the eve of the Australian election.

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We catch up with “Roving Ro” at the Dairy Women’s Network Conference in Hamilton, where the 2025 Fonterra Dairy Woman of the Year will be crowned tonight.

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Jamie Mackay talks to Christopher Luxon, Scott Barrett, Hunter McGregor, and Jim Hopkins.

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The Prime Minister ponders falling Chinese milk production, dairy conversions being back on the table, the “tightest Budget” in a decade, where we can reduce Government spending, and his recent trip to the UK, Gallipoli and Rome.

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The All Blacks captain, born and bred on a Taranaki dairy farm, is also the Kaiwaka Clothing brand ambassador. Today we talk farming, footy and whether he plans to milk cows when he retires.

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Our Shanghai-based correspondent updates the state of the Chinese economy in the face of the US-China trade war.

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A rural raconteur who finds the Paris Climate Accord no joke.

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Jamie Mackay talks to Shane Jones, Andrew Hoggard, Stephen Jacobi, and Farmer Tom Martin.

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The Mighty Matua, the Prince of the Provinces, illuminates and entertains on subjects as diverse as Mike Hosking, co-governance, the tightest Budget in a decade, why the Government's not taxing Bishop Brian, and why are we spending so much of our precious little money in Northland?

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The Minister of Biosecurity talks about the Operational Agreement for Foot and Mouth Disease, which seeks to ensure we’re as prepared as possible for a potential outbreak and sets out how a response effort would be funded. Staying with biosecurity, he also announces the successful eradication of high pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) - aka - bird flu.

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