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The Country Today - water ownership edition

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Today The Country is all about water and more specifically - who owns it? Interviews are with: Bill English, Richard Loe, Blake Holgate, Joe Wheeler, Ben Smith, Chris Russell and James Shaw.

It's the whole show in one go! Today The Country is all about water and more specifically - who owns it?

On with the show: Bill English: The PM ponders the eventual effect of another rise in US interest rates, ownership of water and he denies the Nats are ignoring the regions.

Richard Loe: We head to day one of the Central Districts Field Days at Feilding where we find a former All Blacks hard man wearing his Safer Farms hard hat.

Blake Holgate: Is a Rabobank animal proteins analyst who produced a report on China's animal proteins import outlook and what implications this has for New Zealand beef and lamb.

Joe Wheeler and Ben Smith: Courtesy of Farmlands - fans of farming and footy - we preview this week's Super Rugby with a hard case Highlander and the All Blacks vice-captain.

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Chris Russell: Our Australian correspondent comments on the continuing rise in wool prices and some early progress in the war on rabbits.

James Shaw: We ask the Green Party co-leader who owns the water and who should be paying for it plus we ask him about John Key's legacy.

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