Sarah's Country

Sarah Perriam chats to Rod Slater, Beef + Lamb NZ chief executive, on Sarah’s Country as he expresses his frustration with how independent butchers have been excluded from the essential business list and this is now an animal welfare issue.

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Sarah Perriam chats to Maker2U.com founders Suzy & Hamish Hutton, on Sarah’s Country as New Zealand is in lockdown and our supermarkets are under pressure, there is a rise in online food & beverage sites. Maker2U.com is New Zealand's first online farmers markets and the Hutton's share their journey to build the platform from their North Canterbury home.

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Sarah Perriam chats to Southland sharemilker, Dayna Cunningham, on Sarah’s Country about his first hand experience as one of the early affected M.Bovis properties and how he wished that the government had treated M.Bovis eradication like they are with Covid-19.

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Connection is everything! Humans crave it.

But when the world starts buffering under the pressure of poor rural broadband, it's hard to feel supported, but there is solutions as Craig Young explains!

Guests on this week’s show:

1. AGRI-TOURISM NAVIGATES OUR NARRATIVE: Lisa Portas, Palliser Ridge.

2. EATING YOUR REDNECK WORDS, MINISTER?: Minister Shane Jones.

3. NOT EVERYTHING IN THE WOOLSHED IS ESSENTIAL: Mark Barrowcliffe, Shearing Contractors Association president.

4. RURAL GETS RAW DEAL ON DATA: Craig Young, TUANZ.

To watch any of the interviews, find out how to watch/listen to Sarah's Country live weeknights or contact the show visit www.sarahperriam.com

The lockdown of New Zealand due to Covid-19 set the wheels in motion for Sarah Perriam to take her weekly podcast & radio show into a live daily evening TV & radio simulcast show in alliance with Farmers Weekly.

Guests on this week’s show:

1. FARMING UNDER LOCKDOWN A PRIVILEGE: David Clark, Mid Canterbury Federated Farmers president.

2. RURAL MEDIA IS AN ESSENTIAL SERVICE: Dean Williamson, owner of Global HQ (Farmers Weekly/Dairy Farmer & AgriHQ).

3. TAKE EXTRA CARE OVER LOCKDOWN: Roger Parton, Rural Contractors Association.

4. COLLABORATING ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE: Stephen Jacobi, APEC Business Advisory Council.

To watch any of the interviews, find out how to watch/listen to Sarah's Country live weeknights or contact the show visit www.sarahperriam.com

Sarah Perriam chats to trade commentator Stephen Jacobi, on Sarah’s Country to find out how the APEC Business Advisory Council are collaborating to ensure international trade is still able to operate under a global lockdown.

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Sarah Perriam chats to Roger Patron from Rural Contractors Association, on Sarah’s Country as he expresses the need for rural contractors to understand the rules of being a registered essential service under lockdown.

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Sarah Perriam chats to Dean Williamson the owner of Global HQ (Farmers Weekly/Dairy Farmer & AgriHQ) on Sarah’s Country's first show to celebrate the partnership and the launch of the digital, innovative new show on the week that Farmers Weekly was threatened to not be deemed an essential service and potentially not be able to go to print.

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Sarah Perriam chats to David Clark, president of Mid-Canterbury Federated Farmers, on Sarah’s Country follow his opinion piece in the Farmers Weekly that upset many on social media about his comments that farmers should see it a privilege to continue to operate as an essential service.

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It's a nice feeling to be 'essential' huh?

However, an industry such as farming in New Zealand at the moment that's back is breaking under pressure from the perfect storm makes it had to provide an 'essential service'.

This week in Sarah's Country we talk to to Lachie Macgillivray from the Hawkes Bay Rural Advisory Group who shares about the layers of mounting situations that the regions farmers face from movement control with M.Bovis and TB outbreak, to water & feed storages, livestock returned from processors due to Covid-19 all whilst being in a drought. 

Sarah Perriam, the host of Sarah's Country, is joined in self-isolation still broadcasting from the Lincoln University campus as an ‘essential service’ with her guest co-host, her Irish producer, Joel Rock.

Sarah also discovers how PGG Wrightson’s multi-facted rural services businesses is pivoting to support farmers in everything from livestock sales to rural supplies & advice with CEO Stephen Guerin and she learns from Global HQ agribusiness reporter Richard Rennie about the challenges facing the prime kiwifruit harvest with everything from labour shortages in packhouses to the taste testing facilities shutting up shop. 

Minister Damien O’Connor joins Sarah at the end of the show to discuss how the government can support rural GP’s with the medical challenges of Covid-19 with an influx of urban NZer’s heading to their baches.

Guests on this week’s show:

• 1. HELLUVA TIME IN HAWKES BAY: Hawkes Bay RAG Group & AgFirst Agribusiness Consultant, Lachie Macgillivray
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• 2. RURAL BUSINESSES PIVOTING IN FACE OF COVID-19: PGG Wrightson CEO, Stephen Guerin
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• 3. KILLING THE KIWIFRUIT PREMIUM: Global HQ Agribusiness Reporter, Richard Rennie
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• 4. HOW WILL THE GOVT SUPPORT THE ‘ESSENTIAL SERVICE’ OF FARMING: Minister of Agriculture, Damien O’Connor

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