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Rabobank Best of The Country - 31st March 2018

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30 Mar, 2018 06:00 PM2 mins to read

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It's the Best of The Country with Jamie Mackay and Rabobank. Catch up with the big issues affecting rural New Zealand.

This week's top interviews are:

Damien O'Connor:

Now that the decision to cull 22,000 cattle to eradicate M. bovis has been made, we ask the Minister for Agriculture and Biosecurity about full and fair compensation for affected farmers.

Prof Keith Woodford:

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We ask one of New Zealand's leading agribusiness academics about Fonterra's and chief executive Theo Spierings' performance and pick his brain about the state of the meat industry.

Leonie Guiney:

We ask the controversial gagged former Fonterra director if she's still gagged, whether she's suffering from sour grapes and why she thinks Fonterra got it wrong in China.

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Hayley Gourley:

Rabobank's GM for Country Banking reviews the bank's first quarterly 2018 farmer confidence survey which shows New Zealand's farmers have started the year with increasing optimism, with rural confidence edging higher after two consecutive sharp declines recorded in the second half of 2017.

Joe Wheeler and Brodie Retallick:

Courtesy of Farmlands, fans of farming and footy, we take our weekly look at Super Rugby. Today it's the turn of the world's best forward who goes by the moniker of Guzzler.

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