The Country - Lion edition
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Today on The Country, Jamie Mackay plays tunes from
The Lion King, after learning the musical is coming to New Zealand in June this year.
On with the show:
Rod Slater:
We yarn to a legend of the red meat industry who is stepping down as CEO of Beef + Lamb New Zealand after 27 years in the role.
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Dr Jacqueline Rowarth:
One of New Zealand s leading farming academics looks at the cost of food and we ask if the world is on the brink of a hunger pandemic.
Cameron Bagrie:
We ask an independent economist whether New Zealand is an economy of two speeds and two halves - the haves and have nots!
Rod Slater on the red meat sector s fabulous future
16 Mar, 2021 03:15 AM
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The Country
Rod Slater may be stepping down from his role as chief executive of Beef+Lamb New Zealand, but he has no worries about what s next for the industry.
Slater told The Country s Jamie Mackay that New Zealand beef and lamb producers had a fabulous future ahead of them. No question about that in my mind.
Although the rise of plant-based protein was considered a threat to the red meat sector, Slater remained unconcerned.
Advertisement There s room for everybody. I recall as a butcher when chicken first came on the market and it started to get cheaper and cheaper and people said no one s going to eat beef and lamb - well that just didn t happen.
A Southland New Zealand dairy farmer has invested $200,000 over the last 10 years in planting and fencing around a river and creeks on his property – an outcome of a dream he had back in his native Zimbabwe.
Edwin Mabonga, who together with his wife Fungai milk 850 cows on a 270ha farm bordering the Aparima River at Otautau near Invercargill, used to spend time in Zimbabwe reading books about New Zealand.
“It was always a big goal of mine to come to New Zealand because I saw it as being the world benchmark for dairy farming,” he says. “We used to read books to learn as much as we could and eventually decided to move to find out what the big deal was.”
Truthful, lovely cooking . . . Sharpening his knife in the Fleurs Place kitchen is Lyall Minhinnick, who has been announced as a Beef + Lamb New Zealand young ambassador chef finalist for 2021. PHOTO: RUBY HEYWARD
To Lyall Minhinnick, good cooking is all about gathering ingredients, learning their history, bringing them back to the kitchen, and putting the whole package together on a plate.
Mr Minhinnick, who has been working as a chef at Fleurs Place for two and a-half years, has been named a Beef + Lamb New Zealand young ambassador chef.
A chance encounter with Fleur Sullivan at her Moeraki restaurant, while dining there with his aunty, uncle and partner, resulted in a job for Mr Minhinnick.
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