Farmingshow Archives
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Interview Archive
Tony Haisman
Listen with Windows Media Player20/11/08 - Our resident farm accountant tells farmers and business people how to maximise the tax-deductibilty of their Xmas shout for staff!
Dennis Lillee
Listen with Windows Media Player19/11/08 - In an extended interview we talk to an Aussie sporting great about Steel Blue boots for the farm, drinking beer fast and fast bowling!
Andy Thompson
Listen with Windows Media Player19/11/08 - We head to Hokitika to talk farming, footy and politics with a man on the verge of dairy farming electoral glory.
Ken Ring
Listen with Windows Media Player18/11/08 - The man who predicts the weather by the moon reckons some parts of the country could be in for a dry summer.
Tony St Clair
Listen with Windows Media Player17/11/08 - We cross the ditch to seek the opinion of the former chief executive of Federated Farmers, these days a Melbourne agri-business consultant, who reckons farmers often do better under Labour governments.
Tim Bennett
Listen with Windows Media Player17/11/08 - Our UK correspondent discusses the All Blacks’ chances at Millennium Stadium and why cattle are wintered indoors on his West Wales farm.
Grant Cuff
Listen with Windows Media Player14/11/08 - The Chief Executive of meat processing cooperative, the Alliance Group, reports on a very strong annual result.
John Key
Listen with Windows Media Player13/11/08 - We welcome the Prime Minister-elect on to the Farming Show and ask about his aspirations for the next three years.
Brendan O’Donovan
Listen with Windows Media Player12/11/08 - The Chief Economist of the Westpac Bank struggles for a good news story amidst the economic doom and gloom.
Blue Read
Listen with Windows Media Player11/11/08 - In its Annual Report to Fonterra Farmers 2007/08, the Fonterra Shareholders’ Council Chairman says: “On one hand Fonterra delivered a record payout, achieved record revenues and exceeded its value add earnings’ target. Yet the value of our shares fell significantly, the capital structure proposal was withdrawn and the season was latterly overshadowed by the experience in China.”
Rod Slater
Listen with Windows Media Player10/11/08 - The Chief Executive of Beef and Lamb New Zealand reflects on 21 years of promotion and announces a new member of the Iron Maidens sporting sponsorship stable.
Andrew Fenton
Listen with Windows Media Player10/11/08 - The president of Horticulture New Zealand joins us to discuss an industry whose fortunes are very much in the lap of the gods.
Bill English
Listen with Windows Media Player10/11/08 - To the victor the spoils! We talk to the man who will very shortly take hold the nation’s purse strings.
Hayley Moynihan
Listen with Windows Media Player06/11/08 - Is a senior analyst for Rabobank and the co-author of a newly-released industry report on the global dairy industry.
Ross Hyland
Listen with Windows Media Player06/11/08 - We head to China to catch up with our Waikato dairy farming correspondent.
Winston Peters
Listen with Windows Media Player05/11/08 - The most controversial politician in New Zealand is defiant until the very end!
Helen Clark
Listen with Windows Media Player04/11/08 - After eight and a half years, is a beautiful relationship about to end?
Keith Cooper
Listen with Windows Media Player04/11/08 - The Chief Executive of Silver Fern Farms offers an open door to the Alliance Group after shutting the door on a deal with PGG Wrightson.
Jim Anderton
Listen with Windows Media Player04/11/08 - The Minister of Agriculture stakes a claim for another three years in the job.
Dr Michael Cullen
Listen with Windows Media Player03/11/08 - We ask the Minister of Finance whether this will be the last time we speak to him in his current capacity.
Grahame Thorne
Listen with Windows Media Player03/11/08 - We pick the brain of a former MP and All Black about politics and rugby, two subjects near and dear to this heart.
Eoin Garden
Listen with Windows Media Player31/10/08 - The Chairman of Silver Fern Farms announces a dramatic turnaround in profit for the country’s biggest meat processing and marketing company.
Craig Norgate
Listen with Windows Media Player31/10/08 - The Chairman of PGG Wrightson reflects on the good news and the bad news from yesterday’s AGM.
Henry van der Heyden
Listen with Windows Media Player29/10/08 - The Chairman of Fonterra says the $6-60 forecast payout for the 2008-09 season is safe, for the meantime.
Ben Russell
Listen with Windows Media Player29/10/08 - The GM of Rabobank New Zealand previews the bank’s global review of the dairy industry, due to be released next week.
Sir Brian Lochore
Listen with Windows Media Player28/10/08 - This country’s most famous farmer pays tribute to Neil Purvis, a former All Black and leading Central Otago farmer, who passed away suddenly over the weekend.
Doug Edmeades
Listen with Windows Media Player23/10/08 - Is a Hamilton-based soil scientist who puts aside his political colours to look at the politics of science.
John Luxton
Listen with Windows Media Player23/10/08 - The former Minister of Agriculture reviews yesterday’s DairyNZ AGM and passes comment on the state of the farming nation.
Brendan O’Donovan
Listen with Windows Media Player22/10/08 - The Chief Economist of the Westpac Bank, like most other economists polled, is picking a one percent drop in the Official Cash Rate (OCR) tomorrow.
Keith Cooper
Listen to Part 1 and Part 221/10/08 - In a two-part interview the chief executive of Silver Fern Farms updates progress in the proposed partnership with PGG Wrightson and says it business as usual despite the hold up in securing finance to progress the deal.
Tony St Clair
Listen with Windows Media Player20/10/08 - The former chief executive of Federated Farmers, these days a Melbourne-based agricultural consultant, explains why he thinks lamb still has a great future despite the international financial crisis.
Michael Cullen
Listen with Windows Media Player20/10/08 - The Minister of Finance is treading warily over whether the government should be extending its bank deposit scheme to guarantee interbank lending and offshore deposits.
Tony Alexander
Listen with Windows Media Player15/10/08 - The Chief Economist of the Bank of New Zealand says the economy is in real danger unless the government is prepared to guarantee the deposits made by offshore investors in New Zealand banks.
John Monaghan
Listen with Windows Media Player15/10/08 - We catch up with an Eketahuna cow cocky who wants to be on the Fonterra Board of Directors.
Mike Petersen
Listen with Windows Media Player14/10/08 - The Chairman of Meat and Wool New Zealand tells us what he’s doing at a Tri-Nations meeting ahead of Hawkes Bay’s Air New Zealand Cup semi-final.
Cameron Bagrie
Listen with Windows Media Player14/10/08 - The National Bank chief economist updates a better day on the money markets, following weeks of turmoil, but says there’s a lot more volatility to come.
Ben Russell
Listen with Windows Media Player10/10/08 - The GM of Rabobank New Zealand reinforces his bank’s commitment to New Zealand agriculture, despite the woes besetting the industry.
Henry Van Der Heyden
Listen with Windows Media Player09/10/08 - The Chairman of Fonterra ponders the future price of dairy products and whether the cooperative could have done a better job of handling the San Lu scandal in China.
Joan Baker
Listen to Part 1 and Part 208/10/08 - In a two-part interview we catch up with the colourful author of “Your Last Fencepost – Succession and Retirement Planning for New Zealand Farmers”.
Brendan O’Donovan
Listen with Windows Media Player08/10/08 - We update the financial and economic crisis with the chief economist of the Westpac Bank.
Tony Alexander
Listen with Windows Media Player07/10/08 - The Chief Economist of the Bank of New Zealand tells us just how bad things are as the world money markets go into a tail spin.
Craig Norgate
Listen with Windows Media Player01/10/08 - The Chairman of PGG Wrightson relives a nightmare day when he tried to stitch together the finance for the Silver Fern Farms deal while world money markets imploded around him.
Cameron Bagrie
Listen with Windows Media Player01/10/08 - The Chief Economist of the National Bank looks back on a tumultuous day on world money markets and looks ahead to some challenging times for the New Zealand economy.
Keith Cooper
Listen with Windows Media Player30/09/08 - The Chief Executive of Silver Fern Farms takes a swipe at Federated Farmers' T150 campaign.
Bruce Wills
Listen with Windows Media Player29/09/08 - We head to Hastings where the Meat and Fibre Chairman of Federated Farmers launched the T150 campaign which sets a goal of a $150 return per lamb for the sheep meat industry to work towards over the next five years.
Lachlan McKenzie
Listen with Windows Media Player25/09/08 - Following Fonterra's payout announcement yesterday, Federated Farmers' Dairy chairman says New Zealand's major economic tap is not being turned off, rather it is being turned down.
Fonterra Press Conference
Listen with Windows Media Player24/09/08 - We hear from chief executive Andrew Ferrier and chairman Henry van der Heyden as we take in a slice of the action from today's payout announcement.
Brendan O'Donovan
Listen with Windows Media Player24/09/08 - The Westpac chief economist crunches the numbers on the Fonterra payout and we ask whether the credit crunch will spell the end for Wall Street as we know it.
Mike Petersen
Listen with Windows Media Player24/09/08 - The chairman of Meat and Wool New Zealand says a Free Trade Agreement with the United States is especially good news for beef producers.
Philippa Stevenson
Listen with Windows Media Player23/09/08 - We hear from a leading rural blogger (www.ruralnetwork.co.nz)who's leading the charge on the Fonterra food contamination scandal in China, as the problem goes from bad to worse.
Frank Brenmuhl
Listen with Windows Media Player23/09/08 - The newly-elected vice president of Federated Farmers backgrounds his farming and political background and denies he's a cheerleader for Fonterra!
John Minto
Listen to Part 1 and Part 219/09/08 - In a two part interview, we catch up with a man whose name is synonymous with the protests surrounding the 1981 Springbok tour and find out his views on the Fonterra food scandal in China.
Andrew Ferrier
Listen with Windows Media Player18/09/08 - We take in action from Fonterra's media conference yesterday on the San Lu product contamination issue, where the chief executive defended the cooperative's response to a tragic situation.
Don Agnew
Listen with Windows Media Player18/09/08 - In light of Fonterra's difficulties in China, we ask a New Zealand businessman why it's such a challenging country in which to conduct commerce.
Tony Alexander
Listen to Part 1 and Part 217/09/08 - The chief economist of the Bank of New Zealand says the world is facing its worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, as opposed to the worst economic crisis, which would be more dire for New Zealand.
Andrew Ferrier
Listen with Windows Media Player16/09/08 - We take in action from Fonterra's media conference yesterday on the San Lu product contamination issue, where the chief executive explained the cooperative's response to a tragic situation.
Phillipa Stevenson
Listen with Windows Media Player16/09/08 - Is a leading rural blogger (www.ruralnetwork.co.nz) who takes a strong line on the San Lu scandal.
Tony St Clair
Listen with Windows Media Player15/09/08 - We head to Melbourne, a city in sporting mourning, to chat to an Australian agricultural consultant who was, in a past life, the chief executive of Federated Farmers on this side of the ditch.
Ben Russell
Listen with Windows Media Player12/09/08 - The Aussie-born General Manager of Rabobank New Zealand takes a bit of stick ahead of the Bledisloe battle and comments on the big financial farming stories of the week.
Cameron Bagrie
Listen with Windows Media Player10/09/08 - The chief economist of the National Bank looks at tomorrow's OCR announcement, the falling exchange rate and falling international commodity prices for dairy products.
Phillipa Stevenson
Listen with Windows Media Player10/09/08 - Is a leading rural blogger for ruralnetwork.co.nz who shares her views on the meat industry, saying mergers are not the answer, marketing is!
Ian Corney
Listen with Windows Media Player10/09/08 - It's time to get the facts straight about the proposed National Animal Identification and Tracing (NAIT) system, so says the independent chairman of the joint industry/government initiative.
Owen Poole
Listen with Windows Media Player09/09/08 - The Chairman of the Alliance Group passes cautious comment on yesterday's momentous meat industry vote.
Keith Cooper
Listen with Windows Media Player08/09/08 - We get the result of today's big farmer vote on meat industry reform, hot off the press, from the chief executive of Silver Fern Farms.
Bryan Hocken
Listen with Windows Media Player05/09/08 - The former president of Taranaki Federated Farmers adds some down-on-the-farm colour to the Farming Show!
Tim Miles
Listen with Windows Media Player04/09/08 - The Chief Executive of PGG Wrightson tells us why Silver Fern Farms shareholders should vote in favour of a "partnership" with his company.
Brendan O'Donovan
Listen with Windows Media Player03/09/08 - The Westpac Chief Economist explains the recent drop in the New Zealand.
Sir Brian Lochore
Listen with Windows Media Player03/09/08 - We salute one of this country's finest on his 68th birthday and lament the political correctness running amuck in Godzone.
Graeme Williams Poem
Listen with Windows Media Player02/09/08 - Due to popular demand we repeat last Friday's poem about Winston, Helen and the Olympics.
Jason Miller and Mark Crawford
Listen with Windows Media Player29/08/08 - Are two recently-elected Alliance Group directors who stood on a Meat Industry Action Group platform. After a change of heart we ask them if they have seen the light or sold their soul?
John Gregan and Forbes Elworthy
Listen with Windows Media Player28/08/08 - We're joined in the studio by two high-flying members of the Meat Industry Action Group (MIAG) who explain what the ginger group hopes to achieve by way of rationalization in the troubled industry.
Baird McConnon
Listen with Windows Media Player27/08/08 - We ask one of the country's leading farming and financial entrepreneurs why farmers should support the PGG Wrightson / Silver Fern Farms meat industry merger.
Henry van der Heyden
Listen with Windows Media PlayerThe Chairman of Fonterra warns dairy farmers to expect the 2008-09 season to be more financially-challenging, even if Mother Nature comes to the party.
Rod Slater
Listen with Windows Media PlayerThe CEO Beef and Lamb NZ explains why Kiwis are eating more red meat than ever and why our Olympic Golden Girls are proving so valuable to New Zealand farmers.
John Gregan
Listen with Windows Media Player25/08/08 - The Chairman of the Meat Industry Action Group (MIAG) previews the ginger group's South Island meetings this week ahead of the big PGG Wrightson / Silver Fern Farms merger vote.
Tim Bennett
Listen with Windows Media Player25/08/08 - Our UK correspondent basks in the sunshine of Great Britain's best summer Olympics since 1908 and the worst farming summer in memory.
Keith Cooper
Listen with Windows Media Player22/08/08 - The Chief Executive of Silver Fern Farms has his say as the battle lines are drawn in the troubled meat industry over ownership, structure and strategy.
Rob Davison
Listen with Windows Media Player19/08/08 - Executive Director of Meat and Wool New Zealand's Economic Service joins us to discuss the "New Season Outlook" which suggests sheep and beef farmers can expect close to a 300% increase in profit.
Kelvin Whall
Listen with Windows Media Player15/08/08 - Meat and Wool New Zealand's regional manager in North America tells us why a country in recession is eating more New Zealand beef than ever.
Bill Davey
Listen with Windows Media Player14/08/08 - Is a British arable farmer who saw the light and relocated to Raikaia, Mid Canterbury, where he's farming a 480 hectare mixed-cropping and lamb-finishing property.
Siu-Lin Shim
Listen with Windows Media Player14/08/08 - We ask the Beijing-based marketing manager for Meat and Wool New Zealand in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong what she's doing in Wellington while the Olympics are on.
Owen Poole
Listen to Part 1 and Part 213/08/08 - In a two-part interview the Chairman of the Alliance Group has his say on the meat industry impasse.
Rob Davison
Listen with Windows Media Player12/08/08 - The Executive Director of Meat and Wool New Zealand's Economic Service reports on the national flock number being its lowest since the 1950s.
Keith Cooper
Listen with Windows Media Player11/08/08 - We catch up with The Chief Executive of Silver Fern Farms ahead of next month's shareholder vote on the proposed merger with PGG Wrightson.
Chris Pullen
Listen with Windows Media Player06/08/08 - 1080 Vector program manager for the West Coast Chris Pullen gives us the facts regarding the current 1080 drops on the West Coast.
Paul Holmes
Listen with Windows Media Player05/08/08 - Paul gives us the low down on his Hawks Bay olive empire.
James Parsons
Listen with Windows Media Player04/08/08 - Is a Northland Sheep farmer who has just completed 5 and a half Month world tour masquerading as a Nuffield scholarship.
Craig Norgate
Listen with Windows Media Player01/08/08 - We talk to the Chairman of PGG Wrightson, a man who is leading the charge to restructure the meat and wool industries.
David Graham
Listen by clicking here31/07/08 - The Chairman of Ballance Agri-Nutrients reviews his cooperative's outstanding annual result, the highlight of which was an average rebate and dividend of $36 per tonne of fertilizer purchased for shareholders.
Keith Woodford
Listen by clicking here30/07/08 - Is a Professor of Farm Management and Agribusiness at Lincoln University who looks at some of challenges facing the sheep meat industry.
Mike Petersen
Listen with Windows Media Player29/07/08 - The Chairman of Meat and Wool New Zealand looks at the politics surrounding the restructuring of the wool industry.
David Wright
Listen with Windows Media Player25/07/08 - To A2 or not A2? We discuss the merits of A2 milk with the new owner of New Zealand's largest producer.
Henry van der Heyden
Listen with Windows Media Player24/07/08 - The Chairman of Fonterra lets us know if the mythical $10 payout is possible.
Kevin Eder
Listen with Windows Media Player24/07/08 - The Managing Director of Tradestaff, an industrial employment agency, talks us through some of the pitfalls of employing casual staff.
Keith Cooper
Listen with Windows Media Player23/07/08 - The Chief Executive of Silver Farms talks about the Christchurch plant closure at the Belfast site and the time-frame for voting on the proposed PGG Wrightson purchase of 50% of the meat processing cooperative.
Theresa Gattung
Listen with Windows Media Player18/07/08 - The former Telecom Chief Executive has returned to the world of business after a year's sabbatical. Today we ask her why she has chosen the wool industry.
Philippa Stevenson
Listen with Windows Media Player16/07/08 - The lady behind ruralnetwork.co.nz offers a fascinating insight into a recent forum she attended on the rural/urban divide and gives her thoughts on the recent goings-on in the meat industry.
David Skiffington
Listen with Windows Media Player14/07/08 - The 2008 National Bank Young Farmer of the Year reflects on his victory in the country's most lucrative rural contest.
Stuart Weston
Listen with Windows Media Player14/07/08 - The CEO of AFFCO offers his view on the PGG-Wrightson/Silver Fern Farms proposal and paints his picture for the future structure of the New Zealand meat industry.
Eoin Garden
Listen with Windows Media Player10/07/08 - The Chairman of Silver Fern Farms disputes some of the views voiced this week on the Farmingshow around his company's proposed joint venture with PGG-Wrightson.
Graham Butcher
Listen with Windows Media Player09/07/08 - Is a farm consultant and member of the Meat Industry Action Group who warns Silver Fern Farms shareholders of the eligibility criteria for voting rights in upcoming vote to sell 50% of the meat processing cooperative to PGG Wrightson.
Alistair Polson
Listen with Windows Media Player08/07/08 - We track down a former president of Federated Farmers and former board member of PPCS - a man well qualified to comment on the merits, or otherwise, of the proposed new PGG Wrightson/Silver Ferns entity in the meat industry.
Rob Davison
Listen with Windows Media Player07/07/08 - The Executive Director of Meat and Wool New Zealand's Economic Service confirms farming's worst-kept secret - the cost of farm inputs is skyrocketing!
Don Fraser
Listen with Windows Media Player07/07/08 - We get some good old-fashioned, down-on-the-farm advice on how to avoid a heart attack from a man who's been there, done that and got the tee-shirt. This interview is a must-listen for all middle-aged men!
Peter Stevenson
Listen with Windows Media Player04/07/08 - We head to the coalface of a rural New Zealand transport company to discuss the ramifications of the Government's increase in road user charges.
Charlie Seymour
Listen with Windows Media Player02/07/08 - We catch up with a Gisborne farmer who was last night crowned the winner of the National Ewe Hogget Competition.
Owen Poole
Listen with Windows Media Player01/07/08 - The Chairman of the Alliance Group comments on the proposed new entity in the meat industry - a joint venture between PGG Wrightson and Silver Fern Farms (formerly PPCS).
Keith Cooper
Listen with Windows Media Player01/07/08 - The Chief Executive of Silver Fern Farms responds to some of Owen Poole's critical observations of the proposed new enity.
PGG Wrightson Press Conference
Listen to Part 1 and Part 230/06/08 - The full press conference announcing a proposed new meat industry entity with Silver Farms (formerly PPCS).
Mike Petersen
Listen with Windows Media Player27/06/08 - In today's big story, the Chairman of Meat and Wool New Zealand says he's bitterly disappointed with the disbanding of the Meat Industry Taskforce due to some companies not providing informed consent to enable PWC to develop the strategy.
