The Country

Jamie Mackay talks to Don Carson, Steve Wyn-Harris, Jeremy Rookes, Nathan Guy, Rowena Duncum, Craig Wiggins, Chris Brandolino, and Hamish McKay.

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Our annual long-standing tradition - the Ag Person of the Year.

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Today’s farmer panel. 

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The newly-appointed special trade agricultural envoy.

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Today’s second correspondent panel.

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Earth Sciences NZ weather guy.

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McKay on Sport.

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Jamie Mackay talks to Shane Jones, Alison Shanks, Todd Charteris, John McOviney, and Chris Russell.

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For the final time in 2025, it’s the Prince of the Provinces, the Mighty Matua! We discuss a fun day in Parliament and his Ag Person/s of the Year.

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From high-performance sport to a high-performance Ag Tech company, we talk to a former world champion cyclist about her transition from the track to tracking cows with Halter.

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The chief executive of Rabobank wraps the 2025 farming year and names his Ag Person of the Year.

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A Waitomo sheep and beef farmer and the chief executive of Steelfort, who’s in the business of both growing grass and cutting it. 

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Our Australian correspondent reflects on the Bondi Beach shooting, beef feedlots at 100% capacity and his Aussie Ag person of the Year.

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Jamie Mackay talks to Christopher Luxon, Miles Hurrell, Jane Smith, Hunter McGregor, and Jim Hopkins.

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The Prime Minister makes his final appearance for 2025. He ponders the December Situation and Outlook for the Primary Industries (SOPI), the Half-Year Economic and Fiscal Update (HYEFU), a surprise Christmas dinner guest and his Ag Person of the Year.

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Fonterra’s chief executive comments on another disappointing Global Dairy Trade Auction overnight, down 4.4%, the ninth drop in a row. Is a payout beginning with an “8″ now on the cards?

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North Otago farmer, award-winning environmentalist and Groundswell poster child - or is she? Today, she has Ikea, carbon farming and wind turbines in her sights. Plus, we get her Ag Person of the Year. 

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Our Shanghai-based correspondent finds some long-awaited “green shoots” in the Chinese economy and goes one better in his Ag Person of the Year. He has his Ag Industry in China Awards!

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Our long-standing rural raconteur chips in with his Ag Person of the Year.

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