While we were embarrassingly double-parked, we eventually find our way to Bangkok where we give the Minister of Agriculture a right of reply to criticism that his government is providing very little time for submissions and response to the controversial new water plan.
Blake Holgate:
Rabobank's Sustainability and Animal Proteins Analyst on the proposed amendments to NZ's freshwater regulation and the implications for NZ agriculture. Plus there's the good news - red meat prices and the Rabobank Good Deeds promotion.
Simon Bridges:
In a Country exclusive we coin a new and highly imaginative phrase for the farmer response to the government's proposed water reforms. Plus we ask if the Labour Party 'sex scandal' is a Beltway issue or is it exorcising the country?
Chris Garland:
Is a Wairarapa farm consultant who's been in the business since 1980. Today he says he has never seen farmer morale so low - and that includes the tumultuous years of the Rogernomics reforms in the 1980s.
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