Best of The Country - 21st April 2018

It's the Best of The Country with Jamie Mackay and Rabobank. Catch up with the top rural interviews of the week.

Here's this week's best of the best:

Miles Hurrell:

Fonterra's COO Farm Source comments on a good overnight GDT auction result (up 2.7%), Milk for Schools, paying trade suppliers on time and whether his hat is in the ring for Theo's job. In the first price lift (up 2.7%) in four auctions since early February, all product categories increased with New Zealand's key product whole milk powder up 0.9 per cent. Skim milk powder was up 3.6 per cent, butter 2.9 per cent.

Tim Hunt:

Rabobank's Research GM discusses the implications for New Zealand agriculture of the on-going trade conflict between the US and China and Trump's recent decision to revisit US involvement in the CPTPP.

Nadine Porter:

A New Zealand Nuffield Agricultural Scholar is calling for Government and the Agri-Food industry to develop a Food Strategy to reverse what she terms is a 'broken food system'.

Katie Milne:

The President of Federated Farmers comments on MPI's ongoing battle against M.bovis and the broadband connectivity issue facing rural New Zealand as we count down to the live-streamed coverage of the 2019 Rugby World Cup.

James Shaw:

We ask the Minister for Climate Change and the Green Party co-leader if agriculture should be wary of his new Interim Climate Change Committee as New Zealand transitions to a net zero emissions economy by 2050.

Jim Hopkins:

Is a well-known rural raconteur who takes Conservation Minister Eugenie Sage to task over her 'New Zealand Fish Passage Advisory Group' saying the fish should not come first!

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