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Farmers' Seasonal Challenges

3 items · 3 aliases · peaked week of 26 Apr 2026 · first seen 1 May 2026

The podcast discusses the benefits of New Zealand's new Indian free trade agreement for meat exports, particularly lamb and mutton, while also touching on advancements in farming technology like virtual fencing and the ongoing challenges farmers face due to weather and seasonal节奏

Volume by source orientation Methodology →

Stacked weekly counts; colour by lean. “n/a” covers government and iwi-Māori sources where lean isn't applicable.

Alias drift

How this topic has been named, week by week. A new alias winning out is usually a framing shift.

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Heard on radio

Verbatim segments from politicians speaking on podcasts and radio shows about this topic. Sourced via the voice-reference library — each speaker has been confirmed manually from their voice clip. Click play to stream the original audio from the publisher, pre-seeked to the moment the quote starts.

  • Jamie MacKay the-country The Country 11/05/26: Vanessa Winning talks to Jamie Mackay 11 May · 47s
    Yeah, they run a really good show. We'll barely unpack the bags from field days, Vanessa. Then we've got to jump on a well, I have to jump on a plane again, maybe not you up that end of the country, and uh head to the primary industry awards, looking forward to that one. Hey, just a final comment from you, and and I guess this is in some ways stating the obvious. But while we're celebrating the dairy industry, Kiwi Fruit's going great guns at the moment. They've had a great season. It looks like the marketing's going really well. Red meats at an all-time high, and that's fantastic. But we've got, as you point out, the vegetable sector, the arable farmers, especially, uh, the wine uh sector, and then I think forestry as well, you could lump in there. So not everyone's doing really well at the moment.
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Sample framings

Up to 12 framings spread across orientations. Each framing is a short phrase the topic extractor generated to characterise the piece's stance — not a quote from the source. Click through to read the original.

the-country Government / N-A

struggles from oversupply and cost pressures

The Country 11/05/26: Vanessa Winning talks to Jamie Mackay
11 May
the-country Government / N-A

grazing and processing pressures amid good weather

The Country 28/04/26: Kate Acland talks to Jamie Mackay
28 Apr
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