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Interview Vault - March

Andy Fraser - March 31. Listen here

Andy (weather forecaster) reviews the past week and looks forward to Easter weatherwise.

Grant Disaster Mcmaster - March 31. Listen here

Disaster reviews the latest dog trial action.

Jarrod Watt - March 31. Listen here

Jarrod (physiotherapist) reviews the ACC website and the rugby training program on it. Well worth a look.

Limehills School - March 30. Listen here

Limehills school reviews the first term at school and on the farm

Zane Moss - March 30. Listen here

Zane (Fish and Game) looks at the prospects for this season, changes to bag limits, duckcalling and the merits of feeding ponds

Don Moore - March 30. Listen here

Don is the Farm Manager of the year for southland. He covers his background, present situation and goals for the future.

John Bannerman and Jacintha Atkinson - March 29. Listen here

John and Jacintha talk about Powers of Attorney, what they mean and involve and why you should have them set up.

David Rose - March 29. Listen here

David from Federated Farmer talks about Farm Day, skill shortages and tsunami.

Graham Cooney - March 25. Listen here

Graham (Chairman of Blue Sky Meats and Rugby Southland) talks about being interviewed for the NZRU and also the procurement side of meat supply in NZ.

Grant (Disaster) McMaster - March 24. Listen here

Disaster talks about the Waiau and Gore dog trial results and the rains at Closeburn Station.

Andy Fraser - March 24. Listen here

Andy, a weather forecaster, reviews the past week and looks forward to the coming week.

Grant (Disaster) McMaster - March 10. Listen here

Disaster reviews the dog trial results from Mossburn and also some Heriot results.

James Shorthall - March 10. Listen here

James (ASB rural economist) looks at the exchange rate and what drives it. He also looks at the prospects for beef and lamb for the next 12-18 months.

Andy Fraser - March 10. Listen here

Andy (weather forecaster) reviews the last weeks weather and looks at whats coming up.

Dylan Ditchfield - March 09. Listen here

Dairy farmer Dylan tells us about his trip with Fonterra to Aussie and the North Island to see what's new with Fonterra.

Mike Sheppard - March 09. Listen here

Vet Mike tells us about Vet4Farm, what they do and where they originated from.

Peter McNab - March 09. Listen here

Peter (a farmer from Lochindorb Station) talks about the weather, feed situation, TB and lamb growth.

Gareth King - March 08. Listen here

Gareth, a Felton Road Winery viticulturalist, talks about recent winery rankings, the crop so far, using NZ Falcons to scare birds and a variety of other things.

Grant Disaster McMaster - March 04. Listen here

Grant Disaster McMaster gives the results for the Garston and Mararoa Dog Trials held last week.

Russell Welsh - March 04. Listen here

Russell Welsh reviews the Woodlands Research Station open day last week and updates us on his farm.

Jessica Ruddenclau - March 04. Listen here

Jessica Ruddenclau from Ballance talks moly for clover and the Ballance Technical Dinners to be held next week.

Andy Fraser - March 03. Listen here

Andy talks about weather past, present and future and also looks at the big rains in Aussie.

Jeff Grant - March 03. Listen here

Jeff reviews the report from the Wool Industry Taskforce and where to from here.

Peter Allan - March 02. Listen here

Peter talks about stags, the roar, the state of the venison industry and the shining light the velvet market.

Robin Greer - March 02. Listen here

Robin talks about the NZ Cheese Awards tonight in Auckland, Retro Organics first year and whats happening on farm.

Robert Young - March 01. Listen here

Robert talks about the Woodlands open day last week, 4 day winter shifts and whats happening on his Kaiwera farm.

Justin Muschamp - March 01. Listen here

Vet Justin talks about calf drenching and vaccinations, Lice and treatment of cull dairy cows.

Rod Pemberton - March 01. Listen here

Rod is the President of Southland Federated Farmers. Today he talks about farm dumps, changes to trout fishing season and stock cartage.

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Hillary Mcnab - February 18. Listen here

Hillary talks about RWNZ meeting at Telford and guest speaker is Teressa Guttung