This week on the Best of The Country, Jamie Mackay caught up with Rabobank chief executive Todd Charteris, to find out the latest from the bank's final quarterly Rural Confidence Survey for 2020.
This week's top interviews were:
Dr Doug Edmeades:
The Hamilton-based soil scientist reflected on World Soil Day and questioned his own place in the modern world where Regenerative Agriculture is fashionable and he's not!
Malcolm Bailey:
We chewed the farming fat with a former president of Federated Farmers, former Fonterra director and current Westpac board member and chair of the Dairy Companies Association and Red Meat Profit Partnership.
Todd Charteris:
Rabobank's chief executive commented on the bank's final quarterly Rural Confidence Survey for 2020 which saw farmer confidence now at its highest level since late 2019, after plumbing record lows during the Covid lockdown.
Jacinda Ardern:
In her final appearance for the on The Country for the year, the PM pondered the good, the bad and the ugly of 2020.
Dr. Jacqueline Rowarth:
One of New Zealand's leading farming academics said when it came to work happiness and increased productivity, money was not the main driver, as it can't buy love, doesn't buy happiness and was linked only weakly to job satisfaction. And do increased wages drive "off-shoring"?
Listen below:
David Williams, Te Radar, Catherine Ward, Pita Alexander, Phil Duncan.