The Country

Jamie Mackay talks to Sir Don McKinnon, Hamish Guild, Aaron Walker, Riley Kennedy, Olivia Caldwell, and Tracy Brown.
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The former Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Affairs Minister flies the National Party flag in our politician-free week. He reviews the election and talks about Armistice Day and the New Zealand Liberation Museum – Te Arawhata, our military museum on the Western Front in Le Quesnoy, France.
Plus, the fall of the Berlin Wall 37 years ago this week.
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From a renowned and award-winning Canterbury farming family at High Peak Station, we catch up with another of the 2027 Nuffield Scholars.
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Aaron Walter is a 19-year-old UK Young Farmer who left school at 16 to go farming. He currently farms beef cattle near Bude in North Cornwall. Walter heard an interview with George Dodson and Hugh Jackson on The Country’s podcast and contacted us to ask if we would be interested in a chat. He’s been picked as one of only 22 young people from across the UK for the Oxford Farming Scholars Programme and has co-founded an app that aims to help farmers to spend less time on paperwork and more time farming.
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We have no politicians on the show this week, so the “Ag Journo Panel” steps up to discuss the interim election result and the rural issues of the day.
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