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Today we’re getting alongside a wool buyer who’s been in the business 42 years… Roger Fuller is based in Christchurch and works as a broker for Wools of NZ… He’s been on the board of the Wool Classers Association, and has worked for Wrightsons, and Elders, as well as being a senior auctioneer… In 2022 he won the Canterbury A&P Association award for outstanding voluntary services to the Show.; you get the picture!

John Skurr works for the meat company Alliance, but his focus isn’t just the meat or the muscle part of the animal… It’s all the other bits - the specialty parts that are used for food ingredients and other uses. He joins us from Canterbury where he also spends his time running Hereford and Dorset Down studs, on his Oxford farm.

Proposed changes to immigration rules for NZ have been announced by the government… The man with his finger on the pulse for immigration and the rural workforce, is Richard McIntrye, a dairy farmer and Federated Farmers spokesperson.

Let’s see what’s going on in the rural print media, and this week we’re joined by the Editor of NZ Dairy Exporter Jackie Harrigan.

Time to catch up with the Carter’s Brand Ambassador, former All Black Richard Loe.

Torrential rain and severe flooding are once again having a significant impact on the Tairāwhiti/Gisborne region with a local state of emergency declared... Dom George talks with local farmer and Federated Farmers Meat & Wool Chair, Toby Williams.

The Self-titled Chief of Hope for New Zealand, JJ joins Hamish and Beks on REX recorded live from Mystery Creek's Fieldays.