Listen to The Country online: The Great Electric Cherry Migration with Mike Casey

Rewiring Aotearoa chief executive and co-owner Mike Casey spoke to The Country's Jamie Mackay today.

Today on The Country radio show, host Jamie Mackay catches up with Rewiring Aotearoa chief executive and co-owner Mike Casey, who was on his way to Parliament.

Why? Cromwell cherry grower Casey is on The Great Electric Cherry Migration – sending 100% electric cherries via a 100% electric truck to 100% of New Zealand’s members of Parliament.

On with the show:

Mark Warren:

As we count down to National Lamb Day, we catch up with a Hawke’s Bay sheep and beef farmer who has the lofty goal of a $1500 lamb.

But how do the sums work on that one?

Mike Casey:

We find the Cromwell cherry grower behind The Great Electric Cherry Migration on his way to Wellington to woo politicians, with a big electric 18-wheeler truck laden with Central Otago’s finest fare.

Dr Jacqueline Rowarth:

One of New Zealand’s leading primary sector academics digs deep into soil, writing, “to cleaners, it is dirt. To farmers and growers, it is soil”.

Campbell Parker:

The chief executive of DairyNZ encourages farmers to vote ‘yes’ in the upcoming Milksolids Levy vote.

Phil Duncan:

We catch up with Monday’s resident weatherman on a Tuesday for a look at the week ahead.

Listen below: