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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.

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5:21

The Country 30/06/22: Chris Russell talks to Jamie...

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2022/06/30

Our Australian correspondent talks pies and chips, a varroa mite scare, and the threat F&M Disease is posing to live cattle exports to Indonesia.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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3:05

The Country 30/06/22: Darryl Oldham talks to Jamie...

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2022/06/30

We catch up with the winner of the 2022 Rabobank Farm Managers Programme Management Project. The Oldhams farm in partnership near Ashburton and in his role as the farm manager, Darryl, alongside his wife Anna, is involved in all the day-to-day aspects of running the farming business which grows cereals, small seed, peas, maize for silage, and fodder crops for finishing lambs. His project was based on assessing the viability of converting all, or part of, the farming operation to sheep milking. See

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4:23

The Country 30/06/22: Dr Scott Knowles talks to Jamie...

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2022/06/30

The AgResearch senior scientist tells us more about New Zealand research which shows that red meat is a better source of protein than a processed plant-based alternative. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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4:14

The Country 30/06/22: Winston Peters talks to Jamie...

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2022/06/30

In response to a Jane Clifton column in The Listener, the NZ First leader vehemently denies he's forming a political unholy alliance with Bishop Brian Tamaki. Plus, he shares his thoughts on China's power plays in the Pacific and the unlikely prospects of an FTA with the EU.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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36:48

The Country Full Show: Thursday, June 30, 2022

The Country ·

2022/06/30

Jamie Mackay talks to Winston Peters, Dr Scott Knowles, Darryl Oldham, Chris Russell and Jeremy Rookes.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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6:02

The Country 28/06/22: Stuart Nash talks to Jamie Mackay

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2022/06/29

In the absence of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who's doing the hard yards in Europe campaigning for an FTA with the EU, we talk to the Minister of Forestry about progress on preventing carbon foresters from taking over good pastoral country and basically taking the money and running if their carbon forests go up in a puff of smoke. And is his government anti-farming?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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5:03

The Country 28/06/22: Tom Young talks to Jamie Mackay

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2022/06/29

We ask Affco's National Livestock Manager if his meat company is going down the zero-carbon, regenerative agriculture track? Plus, we look at the international markets and whether a very difficult and elongated processing season is showing any signs of coming to a successful conclusion?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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4:58

The Country 28/06/22: Jim Hopkins talks to Jamie Mackay

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2022/06/29

Every man and his/her dog is having their say about Country Calendar, so what's one more? Our resident rural raconteur also has some strong words for the government in terms of giving farmers their fair dues immediately.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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8:16

The Country 28/06/22: Angus Robson talks to Jamie Mackay

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2022/06/29

Is he an anti-farming climate activist or is he just trying to save the planet? Today we catch up with an old adversary and agree to agree that if farmers are to be taxed for their carbon emissions, they also need to be credited for all forms of carbon storage. And are we setting ourselves up for a fiery fall, if we put all our carbon storage eggs in a pine basket?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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37:07

The Country Full Show: Wednesday, June 29, 2022

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2022/06/29

Jamie Mackay talks to Angus Robson, Jim Hopkins, Tom Young and Stuart Nash.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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4:17

The Country 28/06/22: Todd Clark talks to Jamie Mackay

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2022/06/28

We catch up with our Kentucky-based USA farming correspondent in the "Divided States of America" as the nation is split down the middle over abortion law reform. Plus, we talk about farming in a hot, dry summer.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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5:20

The Country 28/06/22: Blair McLean talks to Jamie Mackay

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2022/06/28

We track our viticulture correspondent down in Adelaide where he's attending the Wine Tech conference. Top of mind is a wine glut, off the back of the China trade war, crippling Australia's $45 billion wine industry. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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4:54

The Country 28/06/22: Dr Jacqueline Rowarth talks to...

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2022/06/28

A leading farming academic comments on that controversial Country Calendar programme featuring regenerative agriculture and a "Woke Woolshed".See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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5:30

The Country 28/06/22: Thomas McDonald talks to Jamie...

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2022/06/28

The Government is giving a North Island sheep milk company nearly $8 million to help boost production. We talk to the chief operating officer the Spring Sheep Milk Company, which has multiple farms in the central North Island and has announced a $20m programme to take the dairy sheep industry from the piloting phase through to an established primary industry. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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5:29

The Country 28/06/22: Stephen Jacobi talks to Jamie...

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2022/06/28

The executive director of the NZ International Business Forum says an FTA with the EU is coming down to the wire and he urges the Government and its negotiators to hold out for a commercially meaningful deal, especially for dairy and red meat.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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36:41

The Country Full Show: Tuesday, June 28, 2022

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2022/06/28

Jamie Mackay talks to Stephen Jacobi, Thomas McDonald, Dr Jacqueline Rowarth, Blair McLean and Todd Clark.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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5:29

The Country 27/06/22: Steve Wyn-Harris and Grant...

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2022/06/27

Today's panel features a Central Hawkes Bay sheep farmer and a Northland cow cocky.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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2:36

The Country 27/06/22: Phil Duncan talks to Jamie Mackay

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2022/06/27

Our man from Weatherwatch.co.nz with what to expect as we move further into the depths of winter. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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5:19

The Country 27/06/22: Greg Peyroux talks to Jamie Mackay

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2022/06/27

We kick off week three of our Future of Farming series - Innovation and Technology with Greg Peyroux from OmniEye. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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5:20

The Country 27/06/22: Nathan Guy talks to Jamie Mackay

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2022/06/27

The Former Nat and Minister for Agriculture today's been announced as the new chair of the Meat Industry Association, after last month picking up chair of Apiculture NZ. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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