Farming Today This Week: New Zealand

Farming Today

• Episode: Farming Today This Week: New Zealand
• Website: Farming Today
• Feed URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qj8q/episodes/downloads.rss
• Duration: 00:24:52
• Published: 2017-04-22 02:00

New Zealand has a fearsome reputation as a top exporter of lamb, beef, dairy produce, fruit, wool and wine - and a great deal of other produce. And it's all done without paying farmers subsidies or being part of a union of countries like the single market. So, how do they do it? Nancy Nicolson reports from one of New Zealand's top agricultural shows where she gets a flavour of the political arena in which the industry operates; the attitude marketeers are taking to the opportunities offered by Brexit; and how farmers feel about working in an unsubsidised world. She meets the Prime Minister, Bill English, industry leaders and working farmers. Producer: Nancy Nicolson.