On today's REX Daily Podcast, Dom talks with Tasman Pine Forests CEO Steve Chandler about winning the Forest Company Section of the inaugural Growing Native Forests Champions Awards, its work restoring native forests, protecting native species and controlling wilding pines, and restoring balance between forestry plantations and productive sheep and beef land... He talks with Devold NZ General Manager Craig Smith about the second instalment of the Sheep to Shop Educational Programme, the importance of communication in the wool shed and breaking down barriers between growers, wool teams and brands... And he talks with AFFCO National Livestock Manager Tom Young about its contract out for last season lambs at 10.20/kg carcass weight delivered before mid September, the particulars of the contract and the general state of the red meat industry.

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