Farmingshow Schedule

Farmingshow.com is updated every weekday afternoon.

* The latest rural news from Newstalk ZB

* Jamie Mackay talking to regulars:

Monday

- Philip Duncan (TRN's Head Weather Analyst)
- Monday's Newsmaker
- South Island Meat and Wool New Zealand Monitor Farmers
- Tony Leggett (New Zealand Farmers Weekly Managing Editor)
- The Great Debate featuring Eric Roy (National MP) and Steve Wyn-Harris (Hawkes Bay Farmer and Journalist/Broadcaster)

Tuesday

- Helen Clark (Prime Minister)
- Jim Anderton (Minister of Agriculture) / Damien O'Connor
(Rural Affairs Minister)
- David Carter (National Party Agriculture Spokesman) / Nathan Guy
(Associate Agriculture Spokesman)
- Graeme Smith and Warwick Catto. (Ballance Agri-Nutrients)
- Aaron Meikle / Gary Walton (Meat and Wool New Zealand) / Andy Thompson (West Coast Cow Cocky)

Wednesday

- Winston Peters (NZ First Leader) / Ken Ring (The "Moon Man") / Ele Ludemann (Rural Commentator)
- Farm consultants (Peter Hook, Chris Garland, Graham Butcher, and Rob Gollan)
- Paul Brown (Dairy Market Report) / Monitor Deer Farmers (Peter Allan and David Stevens)
- Tony Haisman (Farm Accountant) / Farm Vets (John Smart, Richard Lee and Lewis Griffiths)
- Economist's Corner with Tony Alexander (Bank of New Zealand),
Brendan O'Donovan (Westpac) & Cameron Bagrie (ANZ)

Thursday

- John Key (National Party Leader)
- Chris Russell (Australian Correspondent)
- Charlie Pedersen (President of Federated Farmers) / Don Nicolson
(Vice-President of Federated Farmers)
- Doug Edmeades (Soil Scientists) / Don Fraser (Farm Finance Expert)
- Dairy farmers Correspondents(John Monaghan, Blue Reid, Lyn Berry, Wayne Cook & Dylan Ditchfield)

Friday

- Bob McDavitt (Metservice Weather Ambassador)
- Don Carson (Rural Broadcaster)
- Barry Soper (Political Editor)
- North Island Meat and Wool New Zealand Monitor Farmers
- Jim Patterson (Wool Correspondent)

The Farmingshow is completed by specialist one-off interviews on topical farming issues.

Regular guests include:
Henry van der Heyden (Fonterra Chairman), Craig Norgate, (PGG Wrightson), Jeff Grant (Chairman Meat and Wool New Zealand), Mike Petersen (Deputy Chair Meat and Wool New Zealand), Bryan Thomson (Harcourts CEO), Rob Davidson (Meat and Wool NZ Economic Service), Dr Rich Vetter ( US Correspondent), Glenys Christian (Editor Dairying Today), Matt Dicey (General Manager Mount Difficulty Wines), Grant Cuff (CEO Alliance Group), Keith Cooper (PPCS), Katherine Rich (National MP), John Luxton (Former Minister of Agriculture).

For the big interviews from our Archives, click here.