Gold Mining Boom In Otago

G'day, Tainui Zealand. Welcome to the country. I'm Jamie Mackay. This is REM, Man on the Moon. NASA's first crewed lunar mission in over 50 years has just launched from Florida. Four astronauts bound for a 10-day mission around the moon. It'll see them travel further from Earth than anyone has ever been before. And for all you conspiracy theorists out there, my son included, that think Neil Armstrong was a hoax. Good luck to you. Anyhow, on the show today, a man sometimes described as being on another planet, always entertaining, Matua Shane Jones, right of reply from or for what Sir Ian Taylor had to say about him on yesterday's show. Of course, he's pulled out of the controversial debate over gold mining in central Otago. I guess to be fair to the minister, the minister of resources, he's probably got bigger fish to fry at the moment with the fuel crisis. We'll have a look at... Look at that one as well. Ray Smith's the Director General of MPI. How is this Middle East crisis affecting the primary sector and what is the primary sector doing? Some quite impressive stuff happening out there to try and deflect some of the pain from this pain of an event. Vanessa Winning joins us. She's from MPI but today she's wearing her side hat, South Island Dairy event. It's coming up at Lincoln University. So from April 13 to 15, lots of great speakers, very interactive conference this year. We'll tell you how you can go. There's a few tickets left. Our Aussie correspondents, Chris Russell, $500 lambs. Can you believe it in Australia? And just to lighten things up at the end of the week, our resident lifestyle hobby farming correspondent. Big Jezza rocks, Jeremy rocks. We've got all that to do between now and the end of the show but we're bookending it with a couple of loudish characters. Shane Jones to kick it off, Jeremy Rooks to finish it off.