FULL SHOW - 6th May 2026

CountryWide Connect – Show Summary (Working backwards from 1pm to 11am) We finish at 12:45 with the Farmer Panel — Harriet Bremner, North Canterbury sheep and beef farmer, and Chris Lewis, Southland dairy farmer and former Federated Farmers president — discussing how New Zealand’s own farming standards and practices now sit at the centre of the imported food welfare debate. At 12:33, Jeremy Bryant, Founder and CTO – Aimer Farming, joins us on AI-powered pasture management and how tools like “Ask AIMER” are turning farm data into real-time grazing decisions. At 12:18, Daniel Eb, Deputy Leader – The Opportunities Party, on future farming policy, productivity, healthy land and why TOP still hasn’t settled on a position around imported food welfare standards. At 12:03, Simon Watts, Minister of Local Government, Climate Change, Revenue and Auckland, discusses sweeping council reform and why councils now have three months to propose structural change. At 12:00 it’s Rural News with Farmlands. At 11:48, Steve Abel, Agriculture Spokesperson for the Green Party, discusses the Animal Products (Closing the Welfare Gap) Amendment Bill and whether imported food should meet New Zealand animal welfare standards. At 11:17, Dansy and Greg Coppell, Co-Founders of Repost, discuss hitting one million repurposed social posts and how businesses are extracting more value from existing digital content. And we kick off at 11:05 with Helen Lash, Mayor of the Westland District, on West Coast roading resilience, South Westland funding pressure and whether roads like Haast to Jackson Bay are finally being treated as critical national infrastructure.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.