It's the whole show in one go! Today The Country is brought to you by 1967. Whatever for? On this day in 1967, the mighty Sir Colin Meads was pulled up for dangerous play against Scotland and was sent off! Boooo.
On with the show: Weather time with Lisa Murray kicks off the show. Our Met Service forecaster says summer's on the way and we say about time!
Then it's Don Carson's Muster. We ask the question; is New Zealand on the road to becoming the Detroit of agriculture as suggested by technology futurist Dr Rosie Bosworth?
Today's panel features the chief executive of Fieldays Peter Nation and the second-most famous G Smith we know...(it's Graeme).
Winner alert! The Head of ASB Rural Mark Heer announces our first monthly winner of the ASB FarmSmarts promotion - a day out at the ASB Tennis Classic on men's quarter-final day. Sweet!
Then it's time for a bit of wool talk with Jim Paterson who says the market is great... providing you're selling Merino wool.
This week's $100 TAB sports bet of the week with Grant Nisbett sees us backing the Black Caps ($2.70) in the first Chappell-Hadlee one-dayer on Sunday.
Finally we round off this jam-packed show with our political correspondent Barry Soper. This week he ponders the polls and the prospects of John Key being a four-term Prime Minister.