Four Canterbury brothers are taking on Dry July to raise money for the fight against cancer, as their father battles a crippling second round of the insidious disease. 

Four Canterbury brothers are taking on Dry July to raise money for the fight against cancer, as their father battles a crippling second round of the insidious disease.

Jamie Mackay delivers your daily fix of everything going on in NZ's biggest industry, along with a generous side-serve of news, sports and politics. The Country from Newstalk ZB, Hokonui and Gold Sport.

Jamie Mackay delivers your daily fix of everything going on in NZ's biggest industry, along with a generous side-serve of news, sports and politics. The Country from Newstalk ZB, Hokonui and Gold Sport.

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The Country 23/07/24: Tom Plunkett talks to Jamie Mackay

Jamie Mackay talks to Farmer Tom Martin, Jen Corkran, Winston Peters, Antonia Watson, and Sir Peter Beck.

Jamie Mackay talks to Farmer Tom Martin, Jen Corkran, Winston Peters, Antonia Watson, and Sir Peter Beck.

Rabobank The Best of The Country, 7 September, 2024

Jamie Mackay talks to Antonia Watson, Sir Peter Beck, Jen Corkran, Nigel Woodhead and Blair Drysdale, and Chris Brandolino.

Jamie Mackay talks to Antonia Watson, Sir Peter Beck, Jen Corkran, Nigel Woodhead and Blair Drysdale, and Chris Brandolino.

The Country Full Show: Friday, September 6, 2024

We ask the chief executive of ANZ, the country's biggest bank, with the country's biggest rural portfolio, if farmers are getting a fair deal when it comes to risk margins for rural lending. And is the rural and business book subsidising the more competitive residential portfolio? Is the Reserve Bank unfairly penalising banks by making them hold more capital against rural lending? How riskier is rural lending than residential? 

We ask the chief executive of ANZ, the country's biggest bank, with the country's biggest rural portfolio, if farmers are getting a fair deal when it comes to risk margins for rural lending. And is the rural and business book subsidising the more competitive residential portfolio? Is the Reserve Bank unfairly penalising banks by making them hold more capital against rural lending? How riskier is rural lending than residential?

The Country 23/07/24: Tom Plunkett talks to Jamie Mackay

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