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The Farmers Weekly Podcast covers the big issues in the food and fibre sector. Each week managing editor Bryan Gibson presents a no-frills look at the news with the https://www.farmersweekly.co.nz/...
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The Farmers Weekly Podcast covers the big issues in the food and fibre sector.
Each week managing editor Bryan Gibson presents a no-frills look at the news with the Farmers Weekly editorial team and the newsmakers they report on.
It’s rich farming news for time-poor farmers.
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Each week managing editor Bryan Gibson presents a no-frills look at the news with the Farmers Weekly editorial team and the newsmakers they report on.
It’s rich farming news for time-poor farmers.
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24 APR 2025 · Bryan talks trade with Farmers Weekly’s trade reporter Nigel Stirling. They cover the new alliance being sought and whether New Zealand will take action against Donald Trump for imposing tariffs on it.
AgriHQ analyst Alex Coddington joins Bryan to discuss how Australian farmers are faring and what their plans are for meat exports over the next year or so. With parts of the country in drought and others recently flooded, is the era of Aussie market dominance at risk?
Federated Farmers vie-president Colin Hurst updates Bryan on the recent court case where Ngai Tahu is seeking sovereignty over freshwater in the South island. Federated Farmers gave evidence as an interested party and Colin says the case has big implications for farmers.
23 APR 2025 · Bryan talks trade with Farmers Weekly’s trade reporter Nigel Stirling. They cover the new alliance being sought and whether New Zealand will take action against Donald Trump for imposing tariffs on it.
23 APR 2025 · AgriHQ analyst Alex Coddington joins Bryan to discuss how Australian farmers are faring and what their plans are for meat exports over the next year or so. With parts of the country in drought and others recently flooded, is the era of Aussie market dominance at risk?
23 APR 2025 · Federated Farmers vie-president Colin Hurst updates Bryan on the recent court case where Ngai Tahu is seeking sovereignty over freshwater in the South island. Federated Farmers gave evidence as an interested party and Colin says the case has big implications for farmers.
17 APR 2025 · This week:
- Senior reporter Richard Rennie discusses a new app that gives farmers a precise pasture measurement by simply taking a short video of a paddock on a smartphone. He reports on the government’s plan to wind up the Green Investment Fund and talks to one of its success stories, Ruminant Biotech. And there’s news on a big farm sale in the Waikato/Coromandel region.
- Senior reporter Richard Rennie discusses a new app that gives farmers a precise pasture measurement by simply taking a short video of a paddock on a smartphone. He reports on the government’s plan to wind up the Green Investment Fund and talks to one of its success stories, Ruminant Biotech. And there’s news on a big farm sale in the Waikato/Coromandel region.
- Federated Farmers spokesperson Sandra Faulkner is over the moon at the government’s decision to favour wool products in state buildings. She says it will bring confidence back to an industry that has been lacking it for some time.
16 APR 2025 · Bryan visited a Manawatū farm with Associate Agriculture Minister Andrew Hoggard this week to see some of the great work the Manawatū Catchment Collective has underway. Hoggard says he liked what he saw and is working on solutions to the funding shortfall many groups face.
16 APR 2025 · Senior reporter Richard Rennie discusses a new app that gives farmers a precise pasture measurement by simply taking a short video of a paddock on a smartphone. He reports on the government’s plan to wind up the Green Investment Fund and talks to one of its success stories, Ruminant Biotech. And there’s news on a big farm sale in the Waikato/Coromandel region.
16 APR 2025 · Federated Farmers spokesperson Sandra Faulkner is over the moon at the government’s decision to favour wool products in state buildings. She says it will bring confidence back to an industry that has been lacking it for some time.
11 APR 2025 · In this week’s show:
- AgriHQ senior analyst Mel Croad tries to find some sense in Donald Trump’s tariff strategy. She says that our meat exports to the United States are holding up well and with shortages of supply there, we could find they continue to perform well.
- Bryan sits down with five Lincoln University students to find out their views of New Zealand’s food and fibre sector. Second-year students Cameron Brans, Crystal Jewell, Brooke Jewell and Georgia Checkley, and fourth-year honours student Natasha Hastie discuss why they chose a career in agriculture and what they think the big issues the industry faces are.
- Federated Farmers spokesperson Richard McIntyre joins the show to tell us why he thinks Greenpeace should be stripped of its charity status. Richard reckons the recent action that saw activists take over a part of Port Taranaki in protest of the use of palm kernel by the dairy industry crosses the line.
10 APR 2025 · Bryan sits down with five Lincoln University students to find out their views of New Zealand’s food and fibre sector.
Second-year students Cameron Brans, Crystal Jewell, Brooke Jewell and Georgia Checkley, and fourth-year honours student Natasha Hastie discuss why they chose a career in agriculture and what they think the big issues the industry faces are.
The Farmers Weekly Podcast covers the big issues in the food and fibre sector. Each week managing editor Bryan Gibson presents a no-frills look at the news with the https://www.farmersweekly.co.nz/...
show more
The Farmers Weekly Podcast covers the big issues in the food and fibre sector.
Each week managing editor Bryan Gibson presents a no-frills look at the news with the Farmers Weekly editorial team and the newsmakers they report on.
It’s rich farming news for time-poor farmers.
show less
Each week managing editor Bryan Gibson presents a no-frills look at the news with the Farmers Weekly editorial team and the newsmakers they report on.
It’s rich farming news for time-poor farmers.
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| Author | AgriHQ |
| Organization | AgriHQ |
| Categories | News , Business News |
| Website | www.farmersweekly.co.nz |
| farmers.weekly@agrihq.co.nz |
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