On today's REX Daily Podcast, Dom talks with renowned agriculture journalist, author and historian Ali Spencer about the closure of the Smithfield plant in Timaru, the history of the plant and the role it's played in the history of the NZ red meat industry... He talks with Penny Clark-Hall, founder of Social License Consulting, about what a social license is, why NZ farmers need them and what advantages a social license can bring to NZ agriculture... And he talks with the winner of the 2024 NZ Young Auctioneer Competition, Karl Chitham, about his last ditch effort to win the crown, how he got into auctioneering and his work with Carrfields in North Waikato.
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