Time to head down south now and catch up with the Executive Director of the Fairlight Foundation, which fosters and supports the career advancement of women in the NZ ag industry, Laura Koot…  Greetings Laura

Alright, time to check in with the Carter’s Tyres Ambassador, North Canterbury farmer and former All Black Richard Loe.

There’s certainly some heavy lifting to be done following the devastation of Cyclone Gabrielle. 

Somebody who has the machinery to undertake that heavy lifting is Mark Law who operates Whakatane-based Kahu helicopters and flies the country's only Blackhawk helicopter.

Melissa Clark-Reynolds is a New Zealand entrepreneur, foresight practitioner, and professional director…  She was awarded the Insignia of an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2015 for services to the technology industry, and she joins us now to have a chat about some of the issues facing the future of farming, food and fibre.

Time now for this week’s View From the Top Paddock, and it’s a very good morning to the Vice-President of the World Farmers’ Organisation, Katie Milne.

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The East Coast copped a pasting from Cyclone Gabrielle and there are many people in the region working around the clock to help those in need…  One of those legends is our good friend, Krissy Mack, from the charity Hear 4 U…  Krissy oozes community spirit from every pore and we welcome her on to the show today to talk about the response in the Tairawhiti area.

We can always rely on our next guest to have an interesting insight into a range of various topics in the ag sector, and the topic on a lot of people’s minds right now is, of course, the devastation caused by Cyclone Gabrielle…  NZX Head of Analytics Julia Jones is on the line

Should twins born to ewe hoggets and grown out to heavy weights be retained as replacements and mated as ewe lambs? Well, that’s the question which a Beef + Lamb NZ and Massey University research project sought to answer by following the lifetime performance of single and twin ewe lambs born in 2017 from a hogget mating…  The project has now concluded, or is close to it, and has been led by Professor Hugh Blair from Massey University who joins us now

Time now for A Week Of It…  And joining us this week for our panel discussion, is the GM of Rural at Property Brokers, Conrad Wilkshire…  Welcome onto A Week Of It!

During the 2020 drought in Hawke’s Bay, Diana Greer started up the Collective Hug to help farmers during the crisis…  In the wake of Cyclone Gabrielle, she has cranked it up again in an effort to spread kindness, in the form of baking and home-cooked meals, to those in the rural sector affected by the Cyclone…  She joins us now to tell us more about it