{"id":371415,"date":"2026-04-09T15:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/371415\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T15:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T15:44:10","slug":"listen-to-the-country-online-nz-shears-preview-with-sir-david-fagan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/371415\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen to The Country online: NZ Shears preview with Sir David Fagan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr Jacqueline Rowarth: <\/p>\n

One of our leading primary sector academics comments on world fertiliser prices.<\/p>\n

Plus, the demise of home-grown food due to cheaper imports<\/a> such as tinned fruit and pork.<\/p>\n

Adam Thompson and Rhys Roberts: <\/p>\n

The Zanda McDonald farming panel on the cost of fuel, freight and fertiliser, and the price of land.<\/p>\n

Also, planting 7000 native trees and a $2000 cash scholarship for environmental studies.<\/p>\n

Grant Nordstrom: <\/p>\n

It\u2019s the turn of PGG Wrightson\u2019s Canterbury\/West Coast livestock manager to update the market in his region, where the shift is on from arable to dairy.<\/p>\n

Chris Russell: <\/p>\n

Our Australian correspondent laments the lot of arable farmers, celebrates sheep farming, and says he\u2019s embarrassed to be an Aussie.<\/p>\n

Listen below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr Jacqueline Rowarth: One of our leading primary sector academics comments on world fertiliser prices. Plus, the demise…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12024,2841,6284,194174,12022,9519,3223,12018,12023,111,43,139,69,1642,13183,4965,50410,50408,1305,8485,223,61,1865,102,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-371415","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-catches","9":"tag-country","10":"tag-david","11":"tag-fagan","12":"tag-host","13":"tag-jamie","14":"tag-legend","15":"tag-listen","16":"tag-mackay","17":"tag-new-zealand","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-newzealand","20":"tag-nz","21":"tag-online","22":"tag-preview","23":"tag-radio","24":"tag-shearing","25":"tag-shears","26":"tag-show","27":"tag-sir","28":"tag-the","29":"tag-to","30":"tag-today","31":"tag-with","32":"tag-zealand"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371415","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=371415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/371415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=371415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=371415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=371415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}