Listen to The Country online with Jamie Mackay: Dr Vaughn Holder on a world without cows

Are we better off in a world without cows? Jamie Mackay asks Dr Vaughn Holder on The Country today. Photo / Brett Phibbs

Today on The Country radio show, host Jamie Mackay catches up with Dr Vaughn Holder, Alltech’s Kentucky-based global research director for beef, who previews a documentary called World Without Cows.

On with the show:

Andrew Hoggard and Grant McCallum:

Today’s Farmer/Politician Panel ponders putting arms on staff, collars on cows, the Big Dry, whether we should ditch the Paris Accord, and whether the banks and the Nats are too woke.

Dr Vaughn Holder - Part 1:

Alltech’s Kentucky-based global research director for beef previews a feature-length documentary World Without Cows that explores the complexity behind a seemingly simple question: “Are we better off in a world without cows?”

Dr Vaughn Holder - Part 2:

In the second part of our World Without Cows interview we ask if methane is a “victim or villain”?

Are farmers being dealt a dud hand when it comes to measuring emissions and subsequent sequestration?

And is it time to get revenge on Suzie for 1995?

Phil Duncan:

Monday’s WeatherWatch guru makes a belated Tuesday appearance but the news is no better when it comes to rainfall prospects. Put short, if it’s dry where you are now then chances are it will be even drier in a week!

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