We welcome our long-standing political correspondent back from paternal leave. A week dominated by butter-gate as Nicola and Maiki make a meal of it. Plus, we go back in time to 2004 and a long lunch with Winston, followed by the Southland Party at the Beehive.

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The GM of PGG Wrightson Wool. The market continued to ease at yesterday’s North Island wool sale, though the rate of decline has slowed - SWI down 5 cents.

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We continue Innovation Week here on The Country with Herd-i, and today we talk to the four young women behind Nature’s Prime Leather Restore. 

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We hand the mic over to next week’s host.

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Jamie Mackay talks to Mark Hooper, Rhys Gardner, Craig Hickman, Duncan Humm, Chris Russell, and Jeremy Rookes. 

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Federated Farmers’ new banking spokesman on the latest survey ranking the banks, which has revealed how the country’s biggest rural lenders are performing in the eyes of farmers, by ranking the banks from best to worst.  Also, the Com/Com dismissed the Feds’ complaint on net-zero banking.

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We continue Innovation Week here on The Country with Herd-i. Today we talk to the founder and CEO of G-Factor - a virtual reality and graphics tech company that specialises in driver and rider training, particularly for quad bikes and side-by-sides.

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Today’s Mid Canterbury-based dairy and deer farmer panel on the price of butter, and who should be paying for it?

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Our Australian correspondent on drought-breaking rain in the south, pasture pests taking over, the lifting of the US beef ban and the second Lions Test at the MCG.

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The Country’s loquacious hobby farming correspondent fires a few shots in anger. Or does he?

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