Willie Wiese, Alliance chief executive, joins Bryan to discuss the turmoil in global markets that has seen the co-op go from a record profit last year to predicting a loss this season (listen from the 1:20 minute mark).

Then Bryan chats with Amy Hoogenboom, who won the emerging achiever award at the recent Beef + Lamb NZ awards. Amy reckons NZ farming needs to communicate better and adopt a positive mindset to meet the challenges it faces (listen from the 16:30 minute mark) .

He also catches up with Federated Farmers dairy chair Richard McIntyre who has returned from the international Dairy Federation conference in Chicago, where he found that the other big dairy producers think we’re crazy for pricing agricultural emissions (listen from the 30:50 minute mark).