It's the whole show in one go! Today The Country is brought to you by acronyms such as GDT, SFF, OCR, ETS and GOP. Music by Katy Perry...WTF?...it's Olympic related apparently.
On with the show: First up is Steve Maharey. The Vice Chancellor of Massey University shares his thoughts on the political left and right, lamb exports to the US and the failed Emissions Trading Scheme.
Labour's Primary Industry Spokesman Damien O'Connor joins us next to defend his party's broad church and slam the Silver Fern Farms deal with Shanghai Maling.
On today's panel we have Jane Smith and Nadine Porter; a former winner of the Ballance Farm Environment Awards and the PR guru for the Young Farmers Competition.
Our rural raconteur Jim Hopkins has his say on the brutality of sport, the Silver Fern Farms deal and the prospect of a good GDT auction tonight.