Kick off the New Year with the first edition of Best of The Country with Jamie Mackay and Rabobank. Jamie picks his favourite interviews from the week for your listening pleasure.
Here's the best of the week that was:
Dave Yard:
MPI's Incident Controller for the M Bovis response updates the outbreak which has now spread to 17 farms – nine in South Canterbury, five in Southland, two in Mid Canterbury and one in Hawkes Bay.
Damien O'Connor:
The Minister for Agriculture comments on the two big stories of the summer break – the Big Dry and M Bovis.
David Shaw:
We head 'back to the future' to the 1980s to talk to a South Otago farmer who didn't give up on goat farming and hopes to lead the renaissance of the cashmere fibre industry.
Michael Harvey:
Is a Melbourne-based Rabobank dairy analyst who discusses this week's GDT auction result and the bank's latest Dairy Quarterly Report.
Derek Daniell:
We talk to one of New Zealand's leading sheep breeders about his farming operation in western Victoria and watching his son play tennis in the heat at the Australian Open.
Tom Welch:
We catch up with a hard-case cow cocky from Marton who's decided to grow hemp to diversify his farming operation.
Listen below:
"On arriving at the courthouse, they actually tried to sell the pig to its real owner."