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Listen to The Country online with Jamie Mackay: Who is Shane Jones’ ag person of the year?

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Shane Jones revealed his ag person of the year to Jamie Mackay on The Country today. Photo / Mark Mitchell

Shane Jones revealed his ag person of the year to Jamie Mackay on The Country today. Photo / Mark Mitchell

Today on The Country radio show, host Jamie Mackay catches up with the self-titled Prince of the Provinces, Shane Jones, who Mackay has named his politician of the year. But who is Jones’ ag person of the year?

On with the show:

Shane Jones:

The “Minister of Digging it up and Damming it up,” the self-titled Prince of the Provinces, is our Politician of the Year.

But who is his Ag Person of the Year?

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And is he winning the “War on Woke” and the battle against “Freddie the Blind Frog”?

Cameron Bagrie:

Independent economist crunches the numbers on 2024 ahead of this afternoon’s Half-Year Economic and Fiscal Update (HYEFU) and Thursday’s GDP data.

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Mark de Lautour:

We put out the call for a $10 milk price but is the chief executive of Open Country Dairy listening?

John McOviney:

Waitomo sheep and beef farmer and the chief executive of Steelfort.

Today, we talk farming, lawnmowers, Tom Philips’ whereabouts and John’s Ag Person of the Year.

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