NZ's dairy industry wants immediate capping of agricultural subsidies. Photo / Warren Buckland
Today on The Country, Jamie Mackay talks to UK correspondent Farmer Tom Martin, former Minister of Agriculture and Trade, Damien O’Connor, and Open Country Dairy chief executive Mark de Lautour about agricultural subsidies.
On with the show:
Damien O’Connor:
We ask the former Minister of Agriculture and Trade
if he’s going to do a Stuart Nash and drop a few historical truth bombs about the former Labour government. Also, as the world’s trade ministers head to a WTO meeting in Abu Dhabi - we ask if the call for an immediate capping of agricultural subsidies is a pure pipedream. Plus, we go back in time to the 80s when a young Damien O’Connor entered the Young Farmer of the Year Contest and made it through to the Tasman regional final on two occasions.
Mark de Lautour:
