Listen to The Country online: Jamie Mackay at the South Island Dairy Event

Kiwi rower Emma Twigg with The Country's host Jamie Mackay at the SIDE event in Timaru. Photo / Chanelle Purser

Today on The Country radio show, host Jamie Mackay catches up on the sights and sounds at SIDE - the South Island Dairy Event - at Timaru.

This includes a yarn with keynote speaker and rowing legend Emma Twigg.

On with the show:

Richard McIntyre:

Federated Farmers dairy chair and national board member talks about calls by Feds for the Government to immediately strip Greenpeace of its charitable status, following the group’s occupation of Port Taranaki this week.

Emma Twigg:

The Kiwi rower and Olympic gold and silver medallist is also the keynote speaker at SIDE.

Her talk was about the synergies between being an athlete and a dairy farmer.

Todd Clark:

Our US farming correspondent on how farmers are facing challenges, of which Donald Trump’s tariffs are one of many.

Mark Dillon:

The 2025 New Zealand Ploughing Champs were held over the weekend in Middlemarch.

Today, we catch up with the Southland farmer who took out the coveted “Silver Plough” title.

Listen below: