Today on The Country, the team played their favourite festive hits and asked guests to look back on the 2019 farming year.
On with the show:
Damien O'Connor:
The Minister of Agriculture looks back on the 2019 farming year and forward to some positive action from the new Climate ChangeCommission - which he denies is "just another working group".
Emma Higgins:
We ask Rabobank's Dairy Analyst if she gave the commodity market the "commentator's Kiss of death" after lifting the bank's forecast milk price to $7-60 yesterday ahead of last night's 5.1 per cent drop in the GDT auction.
Is a rural raconteur who offers his wrap of 2019 and he names his Ag Person of the Year - without having to look too far from home.
Judith Swales:
Fonterra's Melbourne-based chief executive of the Asia Pacific region comments on the disappointing GDT auction and tough times across the Tasman for dairy farmers.