Today on The Country, Jamie Mackay caught up with Taranaki-King Country MP Barbara Kuriger, who was wearing her gumboots to Parliament.
On with the show:
Andrew Hoggard:
The President of Federated Farmers said there was no government consultation at all around yesterday's announcement of a ban on live cattle exports from 2023.
Gareth van der Heyden:
We chatted to the chief executive of the country's newest and biggest free-range chook and forestry farm, which officially opened today, and will eventually have 320,000 laying hens roaming over 140ha of afforested land.
Peter Newbold:
We took our monthly look at the state of the rural real estate market with the GM of PGG Wrightson Real Estate.
Chris Russell:
Our Australian correspondent reckoned our ANZAC cousins were only too happy to pick up the slack from our ban of live cattle exports from 2023.
Barbara Kuriger:
Today National's Taranaki-King Country MP will challenge parliament's official dress code (in her "rural business attire" of gumboots and overalls) to raise money to support struggling youth into agri-tertiary study.
Listen below:
Downpours and flooding possible across the day.