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Rabobank Best of The Country - June 30, 2018

The Country
29 Jun, 2018 07:00 PM2 mins to read

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It's The Best of The Country with Rabobank and Jamie Mackay.

This week's top interviews were:

Malcolm Bailey:

We catch up with a former Federated Farmers president, former Fonterra director and a former NZ Special Agricultural Trade Envoy who these days is the chairman of the Red Meat Profit Partnership about a call to action for farmers to join the RMPP Action Groups.

Emma Higgins:

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Is a Rabobank dairy analyst who explains the rationale behind the bank's decision to lift its forecast milk price for the 2018-19 season to $6-80 , up from the recent prediction of $6-40.

Simon Limmer:

Today we find the chief executive of Silver Fern Farms on the cooperatives' annual road show at the Feilding Golf Club where fields a question from a Kiwi ex-pat in London about the retail price of lamb in Sainsburys.

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Chris Russell:

Our Australian correspondent ponders State of Origin on a Sunday, record high lamb prices, Aussie farmers getting a bum deal from the banks and retired drug dogs sniffing out truffles.

Sir Graham Henry:

We talk to the key note speaker this morning on day two of the South Island Dairy Event at Dunedin about his rural connection, leadership, mentors, adversity and culture.

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