Listen to The Country online: Christopher Luxon on butter prices, Pāmu, and Chris Hipkins

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon spoke to Jamie Mackay today on The Country. Photo / Mark Mitchell

Today on The Country radio show, host Jamie Mackay catches up with Prime Minister Christopher Luxon to talk about butter prices, Fonterra, Pāmu, local councils and “frickin” Chris Hipkins.

On with the show:

Christopher Luxon:

Is Nicola Willis (and the government by default) guilty of virtue signalling and political posturing, and was Willis sent on a fool’s errand to Fonterra?

The government can’t do anything about the price of butter and cheese (without subsidies), but what can it do to kneecap spendthrift local body councils?

Is the Prime Minister concerned with what’s happening at Pāmu, after the sudden resignation of the long-standing and well-regarded manager of Molesworth Station, Jim Ward?

Should the state be a farmer? Or is that an outmoded concept?

And what about “frickin” Chris Hipkins?

Neville Clark:

A storied and well-travelled Gisborne auctioneer, stock agent, and former NZ Rodeo champion, who has just been awarded a life membership of the Poverty Bay A&P Association in its 150th year, reflects on more than 40 years in the industry.

Marion Cantillon:

We continue Innovation Week here on The Country with Herd-i.

Today, we catch up with the founder of Pit-Seal - an edible biofilm made of seaweed and nutrients used to cover silage pits instead of plastics.

Listen below: