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A weekly highlights programme broadcast nationwide on Saturday mornings on Newstalk ZB. Highlights are drawn from the Farming Show – a daily magazine-style programme broadcast 12pm - 1pm. The programme contains interviewees and regular commentators talking about farming and agribusiness in New Zealand. The programme began broadcasting in 1994. In this recording it is preceded by a news and sports bulletin, and weather forecast. The following rundown is sourced from the Farming Show website:
1. Labour’s Primary Industry spokesman Damien O’Connor backs his former leader David Shearer in questioning the price of milk and thanks Colin Craig – the political gift that keeps on giving.
2. Jacqueline Rowarth: Is a Professor of Agri-business at Waikato University who takes an opposing view to Damien O’Connor on the price of milk and says she’s worried scientists are being gagged by commercial funders.
3. New Zealand First leader Winston Peters says don’t blame farmers for the price of milk and he blames National for the state of farming!
4. We ask Sir Eion Edgar, one of New Zealand’s leading money men, what effect the Greek financial fiasco could have on New Zealand farmers?
5. Rabobank’s Melbourne-based dairy analyst Michael Harvey reviews a market battling some severe head winds but he says it will come right.
6. The Prime Minister John Key says the economy is not going to hell in a handcart despite the latest 5.9% plunge in the Global Dairy Trade auction.