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Listen to The Country online: 2025 FMG Young Farmer of the Year, Hugh Jackson

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Hugh Jackson, the 2025 FMG Young Farmer of the Year, is held aloft by his fellow finalists at the Grand Final on Saturday night. Photo / Michelle Watt

Hugh Jackson, the 2025 FMG Young Farmer of the Year, is held aloft by his fellow finalists at the Grand Final on Saturday night. Photo / Michelle Watt

Today on The Country radio show, host Jamie Mackay catches up with Hugh Jackson, the 2025 FMG Young Farmer of the Year.

On with the show:

Hugh Jackson:

We yarn with the 2025 FMG Young Farmer of the Year.

He’s a Waikato sheep and beef farmer who finished third in the 2023 Grand Final when representing Otago/Southland.

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Antonia Watson:

ANZ’s chief executive ponders whether farmers are still paying too high a margin for their rural borrowing.

We also discuss the OCR announcement on Wednesday, the prospect of a capital gains/wealth tax, and the age of eligibility (and means testing) for national super.

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Stuart Nash:

A former Labour Minister of Forestry has his say on carbon farming and offers a solution for transitioning unproductive hill country to pines and then to native regeneration (for carbon credits).

We also discuss his rumoured candidacy for NZ First and whether he’s been shoulder-tapped by Winston.

Phil Duncan:

We ask Monday’s resident weather expert if we are officially in the chilly depths of winter.

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