On today's REX Daily Podcast, Dom talks with Lesley Coppell, Beef + Lamb NZ's Eastern North Island Extension Manager, about her impressions of the recent Out the Gate conference, receiving the Women in Agriculture Award at the Tararua Sheep and Beef Farmer of the Year Awards and her association with the Shepherdess Muster and Repost... He talks with Scott Wickman from Wicked Hots about its chilli-growing enterprise, the secret to growing good chillies and how to use the Scoville scale to measure hotness... And he talks with Gareth McKerchar, winner of the 2025 Aorangi Young Farmer of the Year Contest, about securing back-to-back titles, his performance in last year's Grand Final and a change of jobs.

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