It's the Best of The Country! Jamie Mackay picks his favourite interviews from the week and delivers them to your earholes via Rabobank.
The week's best interviews were:
Jeff Grant: We catch up with the newly elected chairman of the AgResearch board and reflect back to his days as the National government's chief whip in the early 1990's when one Winston Peters was expelled from the party.
Jim Hopkins: Is a rural raconteur who opines over Winston's nine bottom lines as the MP for Northland cuts a swathe through the provinces on his campaign for the regions.
Shane McManaway: We find the chief executive of Allflex Australasia on his Wairarapa farm where we discuss Doug Avery's new book, The Resilient Farmer, and role artificial intelligence is playing in the agrarian revolution.
Winston Peters: The New Zealand First leader, and self-proclaimed saviour of the regions, gets on the front foot over quad bikes, the polls and bottom lines.
Hayley Moynihan: Rabobank's GM of Country Banking reflects on another good GDT auction result, the healthy state of New Zealand agriculture and her recent visit to the USA for a Women in Agriculture conference.
Joe Wheeler and Aaron Smith: Courtesy of Farmlands, fans of farming and footy, we catch up with a couple of Highlanders ahead of their sudden-death quarter-final against the Crusaders.
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