It's The Best of The Country brought to you by Rabobank and Jamie Mackay who picks the best of last week for your aural entertainment. Jamie's guests include inland Kaikoura farmer John Meuli, Labour Primary Industry Spokesman Damien O'Connor, panel Jane Smith and Nadine Porter, newly appointed Rabobank chairman Sir Henry van der Heyden, panel Doug Avery and Shane McManaway, Fit 4 Farming's Ian Handcock, and Prime Minister John Key.
It's The Best of The Country brought to you by Rabobank and Jamie Mackay who picks the best of last week for your aural entertainment:
John Meuli: We head to the heart of quake zone to talk to an inland Kaikoura farmer about some of the devastation the industryis facing.
Damien O'Connor: Labour's Primary Industry Spokesman says the government should be spending its surplus on infrastructure not tax cuts.
Jane Smith and Nadine Porter: Today's panel features a former BFEA winner and the NZ Young Farmers Communication Manager.
Sir Henry van der Heyden: We catch up with the former chairman of Fonterra and the newly-appointed chairman of Rabobank New Zealand.
Doug Avery and Shane McManaway: Today's panel grapples with cost - financial, physical and emotional - of the earthquakes to the rural communities of Kaikoura, North Canterbury and Marlborough.
Ian Handcock: Is a Hauraki Plains farm consultant and the founder of Fit 4 Farming who talks about how farmers can improve their physical and mental wellbeing by adding exercise to their day.
John Key: The PM ponders the economic and social fallout from the earthquakes and he suggests interest rates may have bottomed out.
