Listen to The Country: Tasman farmer Kevin Freeman on flooding aftermath

Debris around the Motueka River Bridge on July 2. Photo / George Heard

Today on The Country radio show, host Jamie Mackay catches up with Tasman’s Kevin Freeman to find out how his dairy farm is coping after two floods in two weeks.

On with the show:

Kevin Freeman:

We catch up with a Tasman dairy farmer who’s been at the coal face of the devastating flooding at the top of the Motueka River.

The region is reeling from two horrendous floods in two weeks.

Derek Daniell:

We yarn with a Wairarapa farmer, who is also one of the country’s leading sheep breeders.

We talk about carbon farming and the future of production forestry and sheep farming.

Andrew Hoggard and Grant McCallum:

Today’s dairy farmer/MP panel ponders Clarkson’s Farm in a dry UK summer and a very wet winter here in New Zealand.

Phil Duncan:

We plead with Monday’s resident weather expert for a break in the weather for the flood-ravaged Tasman/Nelson region.

Listen below: