It's the whole show in one go! Today Jamie Mackay caught up with Matt and Rowland Smith to chat about Matt's world-record breaking (and back-breaking) nine-hour sheep shearing record smashing success.
Naturally this means today's musical accompaniment is brought to you by The Smiths.
On with the show: Let's start with The Smiths! Not Morrissey's lot, it's Rowland and Matt Smith. Rowland is the world's best shearer and his older brother Matt has just set a new world record by shearing 731 strong-wool ewes in nine hours.
Next up it's Winston 'Grumpy-Pants' Peters. Well, Jamie thinks he's grumpy and asks if the New Zealand First leader is being a party pooper and a wet blanket over the government's aspirational goal of a predator-free New Zealand by 2050.
The impressively-titled Head of Corporate Agribusiness and Capital Advisory, for Crowe Horwath, Hayden Dillon chats to The Country next. He tells farmers they need to be 'Bank Ready' when they front up to their financiers.
It seems winter isn't coming so The Country asks NIWA's weather forecaster Chris Brandolino if he knows where it is and while we're at it when is it going to rain in North Canterbury?
You can't win 'em all as we found out on today's round of Tru-Test Trivial Pursuit with Te Puke Farmer 'Grim' Parry.
Finally we chat to West Coast cow cocky Andy Thompson. He comments on his dairy farm losses, a predator-free New Zealand by 2050 and...sigh...Pokémon Go.
Mackay can't stop talking about it!
You can hear The Country in the Soundcloud embed below: