{"id":257990,"date":"2026-01-29T17:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T17:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/257990\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T17:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T17:42:10","slug":"listen-to-the-country-online-winston-peters-on-immigration-and-fta-with-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/257990\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen to The Country online: Winston Peters on immigration and FTA with India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">And is he in danger of losing farmer votes over his stance on the FTA?<\/p>\n<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">David Birkett: <\/p>\n<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">The Federated Farmers arable chairman, who grows wheat, barley and vegetable seeds in Leeston, just south of Christchurch, said growers should be harvesting but are sitting on their hands as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/the-country\/news\/canterbury-hail-and-wet-summer-leave-arable-farmers-struggling-to-harvest\/TFWEKY233JARDLRF4HBZHXNZHI\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/the-country\/news\/canterbury-hail-and-wet-summer-leave-arable-farmers-struggling-to-harvest\/TFWEKY233JARDLRF4HBZHXNZHI\/\">Canterbury has suffered another tough harvesting season<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">Brian de Lore: <\/p>\n<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">With the Karaka yearling sales this week, we talk to the author of The Horsemakers \u2013 a book which places the breeders, the people behind the thoroughbred horses, at the centre of the story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">Chris Russell: <\/p>\n<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">We ask our Australian correspondent why he\u2019s literally sitting in the Murray River.<\/p>\n<p class=\"vwaNpWtPaxhXkxNi\" style=\"display:none\">Listen below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"And is he in danger of losing farmer votes over his stance on the FTA? David Birkett: The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257991,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[95,12024,2841,1888,122031,12022,917,2344,9519,13489,12018,12023,111,43,139,69,90,1642,6729,4965,1305,223,61,1865,6728,102],"class_list":["post-257990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-and","tag-catches","tag-country","tag-first","tag-fta","tag-host","tag-immigration","tag-india","tag-jamie","tag-leader","tag-listen","tag-mackay","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-online","tag-peters","tag-radio","tag-show","tag-the","tag-to","tag-today","tag-winston","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257990","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=257990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}