{"id":622186,"date":"2026-10-06T10:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T10:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/622186\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T10:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T10:42:11","slug":"listen-to-the-country-cameron-bagrie-on-interest-rates-inflation-and-fuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/622186\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen to The Country: Cameron Bagrie on interest rates, inflation and fuel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scott Mackereth<\/p>\n

We catch up with the winner, alongside his wife Stacey, of the Share Farmers of the Year title at the 2026 NZ Dairy Industry Awards in Rotorua.<\/p>\n

The Mackereths contract milk for Fortuna Group at Edendale, milking 1400 cows on 464ha.<\/p>\n

Entries for the 2027 awards opened yesterday<\/a> and close on December 6.<\/p>\n

Dr Jacqueline Rowarth<\/p>\n

We ask a scientist, who is also a DairyNZ and Ravensdown board member, whether we are getting bang for our buck from the AgriZeroNZ investment<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Farmer Tom Martin<\/p>\n

Our UK farming correspondent talks tough times down on the farm, and a dearth of young British farmers.<\/p>\n

He also ponders whether the UK could revisit Brexit under an Andy Burnham-led Government.<\/p>\n

Jo Luxton<\/p>\n

Labour\u2019s agriculture spokeswoman comments on whether Chl\u00f6e Swarbrick will be the Minister of Finance, and whether farms are exempt from Labour\u2019s capital gains tax.<\/p>\n

Plus, we talk about water storage and changes to the Sharemilkers Act.<\/p>\n

Listen below<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scott Mackereth We catch up with the winner, alongside his wife Stacey, of the Share Farmers of the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[95,104955,138,53314,12024,10001,2841,10668,3914,219,2678,12022,21556,1943,12469,9519,12018,13457,12023,111,139,69,90,1319,4965,7676,1305,199,223,61,1865,102],"class_list":["post-622186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-and","tag-bagrie","tag-business","tag-cameron","tag-catches","tag-closer","tag-country","tag-economic","tag-economist","tag-economy","tag-fuel","tag-host","tag-independent","tag-inflation","tag-interest","tag-jamie","tag-listen","tag-look","tag-mackay","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-picture","tag-radio","tag-rates","tag-show","tag-take","tag-the","tag-to","tag-today","tag-with"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622186","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=622186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}