Listen to The Country online: Fonterra chief executive Miles Hurrell on co-op’s forecast milk price lift

Fonterra chief executive Miles Hurrell spoke to The Country's Rowena Duncum today about the co-op's forecast milk price. Photo / NZ Herald

Today on The Country radio show, Rowena Duncum catches up with Fonterra’s chief executive officer Miles Hurrell, to take a closer look at an upgrade in the co-op’s forecast milk price.

On with the show:

Miles Hurrell:

Fonterra’s chief executive officer comments on the href="https://www.nzherald.co.nz/the-country/news/fonterra-lifts-forecast-milk-price-tips-strong-full-year-dividend/G3VWCC3SNBA6DGUK7JZEZOHCVU/" target="_blank">co-op’s milk forecast upgrade this morning, on the back of strong GDT auctions this month.

Tim Dangen and Emma Poole:

Today’s farmer panel is the 2022 and 2023 Young Farmers of the Year. We look at interest rates (have their banks passed on cuts yet?), strong beef (and beef calf) prices, a cracking season for the North Island and this week’s vet study highlighting shortages and poor retention in the industry.

Chris Russell:

Our Aussie correspondent looks at Australian fears of imposed tariffs on beef and lamb over the next five months, as US election fever sets in and Biden courts the farm lobby. Plus, how, despite being Australia’s cheapest protein in a cost of living crisis, chicken consumption has dropped 9%.

Anne Paterson:

Kiwi axe-woman and 2024 New Zealand Rural Sportswoman of the Year talks to us ahead of competing in the STIHL Timbersports International Women’s Cup in Germany on Sunday night NZT.

Sam Weller:

Weller is a butcher from New World Ravenswood in Christchurch. Last night she won the Young Butcher of the Year title, with judges noting her “back-of-house work” set her apart, saying, “She left really clean bones, and her finishing standard was excellent”.

Chris Brandolino:

NIWA’s principal scientist on the mixed weather that’s in store across New Zealand for the next few weeks.

Listen below: