Today on The Country, Jamie Mackay catches up with Dr Jacqueline Rowarth, who likened the government’s reaction to He Waka Eke Noa proposals as this farming generation’s “subsidy-free moment”.
On with the show:
Phil Duncan:
Monday’s resident weather expert says (on a Tuesday) the Cup might be in Melbournebut the good weather is in New Zealand.
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.
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.
