Continuing with our Best Of from REX so far this year, and of course, there was some heavy lifting to be done in the immediate aftermath of Cyclone Gabrielle…  Somebody who had the machinery to undertake that heavy lifting is Mark Law, who operates Whakatane-based Kahu helicopters, and flies the country's only Blackhawk helicopter…  He was at the coalface in the wake of the devastation, and we caught up with him in late February.

For another Best Of segment on our Easter Sunday special, and one of the country’s most prominent artists has joined a battle to protect Central Otago from pine trees…  Sir Grahame Sydney is one of 37 people or organisations who submitted against the proposal to plant 66 hectares of pine trees for carbon on Lammermoor Station…  He joined us on REX to talk about his involvement back in early February.

For another Best Of segment on our Easter Sunday special, and one of the country’s most prominent artists has joined a battle to protect Central Otago from pine trees…  Sir Grahame Sydney is one of 37 people or organisations who submitted against the proposal to plant 66 hectares of pine trees for carbon on Lammermoor Station…  He joined us on REX to talk about his involvement back in early February.

Our final ‘Best Of’ interview for our Easter Sunday Special is Harriet Bremner; author, speaker, Southland farmer and advocate for health, safety and wellbeing in agriculture…  She added to that list last month, winning the 2023 Zanda McDonald Award

For another Best Of segment on our Easter Sunday special, and one of the country’s most prominent artists has joined a battle to protect Central Otago from pine trees…  Sir Grahame Sydney is one of 37 people or organisations who submitted against the proposal to plant 66 hectares of pine trees for carbon on Lammermoor Station…  He joined us on REX to talk about his involvement back in early February

It’s on track to be a 20 billion dollar global industry, and this week it was on full display at Auckland’s Aotea Centre. The 10th World Avocado Congress saw industry leaders from 33 countries converge on NZ, the first time it’s been held in this country. To tell us all about it, we’re joined now by the CEO of NZ Avocado, Jen Scoular.

Kane Brisco is a Taranaki farmer and father of three…  He started his farmer-support page, Farm Fit, to create awareness around the importance of talking about the daily pressures of farming…  He’s a former rugby player, boxer and qualified personal trainer, he runs fitness boot camps and paddock sessions for his local community, and he has a book out!  We had the pleasure of his company at Fieldays last year and thought we’d get him on to see how life is at the moment.