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Listen to The Country online: Save Our Sheep with Federated Farmers’ Toby Williams

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Federated Farmers' Toby Williams spoke to Jamie Mackay about Feds' new campaign - Save Our Sheep.
Federated Farmers' Toby Williams spoke to Jamie Mackay about Feds' new campaign - Save Our Sheep.

Federated Farmers' Toby Williams spoke to Jamie Mackay about Feds' new campaign - Save Our Sheep.

Today on The Country radio show, host Jamie Mackay catches up with Federated Farmers’ meat and wool chairman Tobu Williams to talk about a new campaign called Save Our Sheep, aimed at halting the collapse of New Zealand’s sheep industry.

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On with the show:

Toby Williams:

Federated Farmers’ meat and wool chairman launches a new campaign, SOS: Save Our Sheep, calling for urgent action to halt the collapse of New Zealand’s sheep industry.

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Andrew Hoggard and Grant McCallum:

It’s the “Hoggy and McNational Farmer/Politician Panel”.

On today’s menu, we have Grant’s underpants, the Regulatory Standards Bill, and whether the government is doing enough to halt the relentless onslaught from carbon farming, blanket-planting some of our productive pastoral land.

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Affco’s national livestock manager comments on record red meat prices. But is it enough to save the industry from further decline?

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It’s Stihl Chainsaw Safety Awareness Week, and we have a Stihl MS182 Chainsaw (valued at $555) to give away, as well as some good advice.

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