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The Country - World Milk Day edition

The Country
31 May, 2019 01:00 AM2 mins to read

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Today on The Country, Jamie Mackay encourages New Zealanders to raise a glass of the white stuff for World Milk Day tomorrow.

On with the show:

Lisa Murray:

Our Met Service forecaster talks about winter arriving right on cue!

Don Carson:

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We ask the PR man for the NZ Forest Owners Association what was in the Budget for farming and forestry and we debate what is worth more to the export economy - red meat or forestry?

Cameron Bagrie:

Is an independent economist - on why forestry is not a fix-all, challenging times for the dairy industry and what's in the Budget for the primary and productive sectors?

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Jeremy Rookes and Graeme Smith:

Today's panel features a disgruntled Hawkes Bay sheep and beef farmer and the chief executive of the Waikato and Coromandel Drug Detection Agency.

Grant Edwards:

The GM Wool for PGG Wrightson comments on a disappointing end to the 2018-19 season, but says farmers are still be rewarded for better colour wools.

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