{"id":167202,"date":"2025-12-04T05:09:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T05:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/167202\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T05:09:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T05:09:09","slug":"listen-to-the-country-shane-jones-on-failed-ets-auctions-and-regional-council-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/167202\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen to The Country: Shane Jones on failed ETS auctions and regional council reform"},"content":{"rendered":"

Total group profit after tax: $278 million, up $15m Continuing operations profit after tax: $158m, down $10m FY26 forecast earnings for continuing operations: 45-65 cents per share2025-26 forecast farmgate milk price: $9.00-$10.00 per kgMS, with midpoint of $9.50\/kgMS<\/p>\n

Shane Jones: <\/p>\n

Last time we yarned, he coined the phrase \u201ca demonic egg beater\u201d when referring to Chl\u00f6e Swarbrick. <\/p>\n

What will he call her today, and who will be in the firing line? <\/p>\n

The man sometimes known as the Prince of the Provinces, or M\u0101tua Shane, also tackles the failed ETS auctions of 2025<\/a>, ridding us of the \u201cgreen banshees\u201d and regional councils, capping local body rates at 2-4%, and selling state assets, including P\u0101mu.<\/p>\n

Barry Fox: <\/p>\n

Live from the Temuka saleyards, we update the biggest sale of the year for the IHC Calf Scheme, with PGG Wrightson\u2019s dairy livestock manager.<\/p>\n

Chris Russell: <\/p>\n

Our Australian correspondent talks rugby, cricket, The Country Hour and blowflies.<\/p>\n

Listen below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Total group profit after tax: $278 million, up $15m Continuing operations profit after tax: $158m, down $10m FY26…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[95,32000,138,12024,5205,2841,42673,12513,12022,9519,2176,12018,12023,6722,111,139,69,90,4965,16860,5914,8279,7228,1305,223,61,1865,102],"class_list":["post-167202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-and","tag-auctions","tag-business","tag-catches","tag-council","tag-country","tag-ets","tag-failed","tag-host","tag-jamie","tag-jones","tag-listen","tag-mackay","tag-minister","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-radio","tag-reform","tag-regional","tag-resources","tag-shane","tag-show","tag-the","tag-to","tag-today","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}