Listen to The Country: Crusaders coach Rob Penney and ex-Wallabies manager Chris Webb on farming and rugby

Jamie Mackay caught up with Rob Penney and Chris Webb ahead of the Bledisloe Cup clash at Eden Park this weekend. Photo / Brett Phibbs

Today on The Country radio show, host Jamie Mackay catches up with two rugby veterans on a high-performance themed farm tour across New Zealand, timed to coincide with the Bledisloe Cup.

Crusaders coach Rob Penney and former Wallabies manager Chris Webb share their rural backgrounds, talk about the crossover between sport and agribusiness, and offer their thoughts on this weekend’s clash at Eden Park.

On with the show:

Ben Picton:

Rabobank’s macro strategist (senior economist) comments on last week’s dismal GDP number (-0.9% for the June quarter) and what it means for interest rates for New Zealand farmers.

Plus, could we see our OCR drop to as low as 2% by February 2026?

Chris Webb and Rob Penney:

We mix high-performance sport with high-performance agribusiness on today’s panel with a former Wallabies manager and the current Crusaders Coach.

Susan Harris:

Principal scientist at GreenXperts Ltd, a New Zealand-based sustainability consultancy involved in numerous carbon and land management projects.

Today, she says huge pieces of Antarctica are not falling off because of livestock emissions.

Rather, she says, we should be global leaders and a better investment for New Zealand would be “to develop some diplomatic bottle” and lobby the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to remove livestock emissions from the Paris Climate Agreement.

Listen below: