Listen to The Country online with Jamie Mackay: 2025 Zanda McDonald Award winners

Jamie Mackay spoke to the 2025 Zanda McDonald Award New Zealand winner Maegen Blom on the show today. Photo / K. Ingram

Today on The Country radio show, host Jamie Mackay catches up with the 2025 Zanda McDonald Award winners Maegen Blom (New Zealand) and Jack O’Connor (Australia), along with founder Shane McManaway.

On with the show:

Christopher Luxon:

The Prime Minister ponders tomorrow’s Investment Summit in Auckland, Saturday’s trade trip to India, and Winston Peters meeting Marco Rubio in Washington.

Plus - why are we trying to feed more than a quarter of all our school children?

Shane McManaway, Maegen Blom and Jack O’Connor:

We catch up with the founder and the two transtasman winners of the 2025 Zanda McDonald Awards.

Jane Smith:

This North Otago farmer and award-winning environmentalist has been lunching with David Seymour and having dinner with Christopher Luxon.

We ask what she makes of fighting climate change by applying basalt rock to our pastures.

Alistair Niven:

A Katikati grower and Avocado Grower Services Representative in the Bay of Plenty discusses the many issues the industry is facing.

Listen below: