It's Best of The Country with Rabobank. Every Saturday Jamie Mackay plays his top interviews from the week that was.
Here's this week's best of the best:
Farming's worst kept secret is out! M. bovis is in Waikato – the powerhouse province of dairy industry. We ask Federated Farmers' National Dairy Chair why MPI was so slow out of the blocks to confirm it, should politicians being playing the blame game, should the cull be stopped and who will end up footing the bill?
We head to a woolshed in Dannevirke where we find a Rabobank US Animal Proteins Analyst. Topics for discussion include how M. bovis is affecting the US beef industry, the global dynamics of the industry and how a big dry in the south-west US will affect world production.
With some farmers and rural folk really struggling under the pressure of M.bovis, financial pressure and isolation, we thought we'd enlist the services of man who's been knighted for his services to mental health. [His message to farmers is to talk, don't be afraid to seek help and to get an interest off the farm. The answer is not to just work harder!]
The PM ponders the Budget, Bovis, babies and a royal wedding.
Fonterra's Chairman reflects on a challenging year for dairy farmers that's finished strongly with a good autumn, a positive final GDT auction (+1.9%, WMP + 0.2%) for the 2017-18 season, a depreciating currency and the prospect of a good forecast payout for 2018-19.
The Resilient Farmer previews the roadshows over the next four weekends leading into the 50th Fieldays at Mystery Creek from June 13-16.
Listen below: