Today on The Country we take a look at the latest results from the Global Dairy Trade Auction with Rob Spurway and Emma Higgins.
On with the show:
Jacinda Ardern:
The PM ponders the perils of politics across the ditch, a pay freeze for big earners in the public sector, net migration numbers, goat milk for baby Neve and how the First Bloke is handling life as a house husband.
Rob Spurway:
Fonterra's COO of Global Operations reviews the disappointing GDT auction overnight (-3.6%) but says it was not all bad news.
Chris Brandolino:
NIWA's weather forecaster, on the eve of his departure to the USA, talks about a northern hemisphere heat wave and a benign late winter/early spring for New Zealand farmers.
Anthony Mackaiser:
We talk to a former media manager of the Springboks about a beer that carries his name and about the state of South African farming now that government has begun the process of seizing land from white farmers.
Emma Higgins:
We ask Rabobank's dairy analyst whether it's too early to push the panic button following yet another fall in the GDT auction overnight and the resultant "recalibration of fat".
Listen below:
Motorists are being warned to drive 'carefully' as heavy falls start in Rotorua, Taupō.