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Dairy's drop leads farm prices down
Farm prices are on the way down, led by an 18 per cent decline in the dairy sector over the past 12 months.
Farm prices are on the way down, led by an 18 per cent decline in the dairy sector over the past 12 months.
Ryan MacArthur is a Lincoln University student who heads the Handy Landys, a group of like-minded students willing to give freely of their time to the local rural community in Canterbury.
The top tunes from 1976 ushers in The Country today as Dom Boy takes over the reigns from a holidaying Jamie Mackay.
Craig 'Wiggy' Wiggins fills us in on the behind the scenes action at the FMG Young Farmer of the Year Grand Final and give us his opinion on the winner Athol New.
The Country is all about farming and footy today along with some sweet kiwi tunes from 1988.
Mark Townshend: We talk farming and footy with one of New Zealand's leading dairy farmers and a former Chiefs board member.
The Country's Jamie Mackay reckons Pita Alexander is an oxymoron because he's a charismatic accountant. Nice.
COMMENT: Dom George celebrates the achievements of rally driver Mike McLean and FMG Young Farmer of the Year Athol New in this week's Furious George.
Cameron Bagrie, the chief economist of the ANZ Bank agrees that low interest rates do strange things to investors as the property and equity markets surge around the globe!
Do you know your GDT from your OMG? The Country's Jamie Mackay is here to teach you the ways of the agricultural acronym!
SPOILER ALERT: Look away now if you're waiting for the televised coverage of the FMG Young Farmer of the Year Grand Final on Saturday. The Country's Jamie Mackay interviews the winner!
Dom is away again today so Jamie Mackay is running things on The Country. He catches up with the New FMG Young Farmer of the Year while bombarding us with Elton John's greatest hits. Who says Mackay can't multitask?
It's the best bits of last week according to Jamie Mackay as he chooses the choicest audio cuts from The Country for your aural delight.
Manuka honey is making a big comeback with plans to develop a $1.2 billion honey industry.
Craig Wiggins is at the FMG Young Farmer of the Year Grand Final. We won't see him for eight days though as it is televised next week. Wiggins is frustrated with the lack of rural content on the television in general.
Te Radar is in Timaru for day two of three at the FMG Young Farmer of the Year Grand Final, where we find the well-known New Zealander 'mooching' around.
It's all about the FMG Young Farmer of the Year Grand Final today. Plus Maori Language Week, politics, weather, wool...and Metallica.
Graeme Smith, owner of the Waikato-Coromandel branch of the Drug Detection Agency, wades into the debate about drug use and production
Rory Ferguson lives on a dairy farm in Milton, South Otago but not for long - he's just been signed with the Broncos. The Country Early Edition's Dom George spoke to him today.
Dom's wife's love for her new pet bunny has driven the notorious curmudgeon to write a column about the history of rabbit-genocide in farming.
The Country is brought to you today by a dairy dip and the music of man in black...Johnny Cash.
The Country previews FMG Young Farmer of the Year Competition Grand Final which gets underway in Timaru on Thursday, culminating on Saturday night with the awarding of the 'Cloak of Knowledge'.
As we count down to tomorrow night's Beef + Lamb NZ Sheep Industry Awards in Masterton, we head to London to catch up with one of the finalists who's been watching his son play tennis at Wimbledon.
Milk processing firm Miraka is tripling production to meet a growing thirst for its UHT products in China.
Evan Dick: We talk to a South Otago dairy farmer who's come up with a novel plan to solve the housing crisis and the labour shortage in rural New Zealand.
Jason Miller is a high-profile Southland sheep farmer who warns we must not underestimate the importance of Britain to our lamb industry.
Jamie Mackay has taken leave of his senses over Brexit and Dom is starting to feel the effects as The Country HQ descends into pandemonium.
Everyone's fired up on today's show as the Brexit debate shows no sign of slowing down. More importantly, will Jamie stop saying 'Shexit'?
Dom George catches up with Bayleys Real Estate New Zealand Country Manager, Simon Anderson to talk about a growing concern over farm succession.
Farmers Dairy chairman Andrew Hoggard says dairy farmers need to ask themselves what a smart level of debt is given the risk profile for the next decade.