Today on The Country we try and find a silver lining to the Mycoplasma bovis situation with Emma Higgins from Rabobank and Rural Raconteur Jim Hopkins.
On with the show:
Jacinda Ardern:
The PM ponders M.bovis and her chances of making it to Fieldays with her baby due "any time now".
Warwick Catto and Jamie Strang:
We catch with the two on-farm judges of the Ballance Farm Environment Awards ahead of the National Sustainability Showcase Awards Dinner at Te Papa on June 7.
Maria Augutis:
We ask a NIWA forecaster if we're heading for cold winter.
Grant Engel:
The countdown to the 50th Fieldays continues and this weekend our roadshow heads to Kerikeri to talk to a cow cocky turned beekeeper.
Emma Higgins:
Rabobank's dairy analyst says although M. bovis is a huge blow to dairy and beef farmers and the country's economy, every cloud has a silver lining.
Jim Hopkins:
Is a rural raconteur who reckons the only upside to M. bovis is that urban New Zealand is now viewing dairy farmers in a much more empathetic and sympathetic light.
Listen below: