Meat Cooperative Share Prices

G'day New Zealand, welcome to The Country, brought to you by Izuzu and Farmlands, I'm Jamie Mackay. This is Murray Head from the musical Chess, one night in Bangkok. Unfortunately they didn't have a song called One Night in Singapore, so I went with somewhere that was sort of near to there. And the reason is we're going to kick off the show today with Michael Everey. Probably break this into two bits. He's Rabobank's Singapore-based global strategist, but he's in Australia. We're going to go there just in a tick. We'll have a look at the geopolitical state of the world. More importantly, New Zealand as a food-producing ag trading nation, how can we position ourselves to buffer these turbulent times? He's always good, sometimes a bit of an alarmist. We'll see how he goes. Michael Avery to kick off the country Joe Luxton Labour's ag spokesperson she's written an opinion piece on fuel and fertiliser on the fuel and fertiliser crisis and says the government could be doing better And when is she going to come out with some ag policy? I'm going to put the blowtorch on Joe because budget day is coming up at the end of the month and Chippy and co have said they will come out with more policy after they know how the books are looking. And our farm strong farmer this month is from Pongakawa, which is just southeast of Te Puke. His name is Paul Walker. He's got a 300 cow dairy farm on 90 hectares. of flood prone land so he's had a few issues weather-wise to deal with we'll talk to Paul about how he looks after the top paddock it's all on the country Michelle will have rural news for you as well I think she might have something on the share prices of our two big meat cooperatives the Alliance Group and Silver Fern Farms and we'll have a look at sport for you as well we've got a winner in the World Snooker Championships Yep.