It's the Cycle Tour of Southland week in the deep south which traditionally serves up some inclement weather. We ask a Southland farmer and 2016 Zanda McDonald Award winner how he's got on meeting David Parker's decree on getting crops and pasture re-sown by yesterday's ridiculous deadline.
Tony Laker:
Life is short and fleeting so take your chances. That's the message from a man who's an advocate of what's he's been preaching to his travel clients for the best part of three decades.
Todd Clark:
Our US correspondent is a Lexington (Kentucky) livestock and cropping farmer who's a true-blue Republican. Despite his reservations about Donald Trump, the person, he still thinks America will go Red when it comes to the Orange man.
Steve Wyn-Harris and Grant McCallum:
Today's panel features a Central Hawke's Bay sheep farmer and a Northland cow cocky as we ponder the farming and political climates.
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