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Listen to The Country online: Deputy PM David Seymour’s Ag Person of the Year

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Deputy Prime Minister David Seymour spoke to The Country's Jamie Mackay today. Photo / Mark Mitchell

Deputy Prime Minister David Seymour spoke to The Country's Jamie Mackay today. Photo / Mark Mitchell

Today on The Country radio show, host Jamie Mackay catches up with Deputy Prime Minister David Seymour.

Seymour talks about how he can’t discuss the Half-Year Economic and Fiscal Update before announcing his Ag Person of the Year.

On with the show:

David Seymour:

The Deputy Prime Minister and Act Party leader makes his final appearance for 2025, as we discuss tomorrow’s Half-Year Economic and Fiscal Update (Hyefu).

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Plus, who is his Ag Person of the Year?

Mike Casey:

The founder of Cromwell-based Electric Cherries plays Santa on The Country.

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Riley Kennedy:

The rural editor at BusinessDesk names his Ag Person of the Year and he’s gone for Mark Wynne, the former chairman of the Alliance Group.

Dr Jacqueline Rowarth:

One of New Zealand’s leading primary sector academics talks rubbish, nitrates in drinking water, getting dry in Waikato and her Ag Person of the Year.

Phil Duncan:

Monday’s weatherman has a spring-like forecast and his Ag Person of the Year.

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