Rabobank Best of the Country - 26th November 2016

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 industry is 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.