One of New Zealand’s leading farming academics says what we are experiencing on the land is “this generation’s subsidy-free moment”.
Ross Hyland:
This rural advocate was there in the 80s when farming subsidies were chopped overnight. We ask if now, nearly four decades on, times are just as divisive.
Todd Clark:
Our US farming correspondent joins us from the horse racing capital of the world, Lexington, to yarn about Halloween, a double-whammy drought and if American farmers facing a carbon tax.
Don Carson:
The PR man for the NZ Forestry Association says we need to stop the “hysteria” around forestry. And we ask him whether forestry is getting a bad name from carbon farming.
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