The Country - Meat edition

Today on The Country, Jamie Mackay caught up with Silver Fern Farm chief executive Simon Limmer to find out more about how meat processing plants are coping with the Covid-19 outbreak.

On with the show:

Sir John Key:

In times of crisis you look to a safe set of hands for advice. Who better than the man who lead the country through the Global Financial Crisis?

Simon Limmer:

The chief executive of Silver Fern Farms updates the processing capacity of an under-the-pump red meat industry.

Heather Rivett:

The team at the rural ISP NetSpeed offer us some handy tips to survive the lockdown with a limited data cap, slow internet speed or reduced rural connectivity.

Blake Holgate:

Rabobank's animal proteins analyst says a month's a long time between Agribusiness Reports with today's April publication varying markedly, thanks to Covid-19, from what was predicted and reported in early March.

Elle Perriam:

It's our Rural Mental Health Week, as we kick off our boots to kick off the conversation, and today it's the turn of the young woman behind "Will to Live".

Listen below: