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The Country - Easter Monday edition

The Country
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Yesterday on The Country, Jamie Mackay and Rowena Duncum decided the show must go on, and put on a special edition for Easter Monday.

On with the show:

Phil Duncan:

Monday's resident weather expert updates rainfall numbers in the drought regions and warns of a winter's first shot in anger.

Graeme Smith and Bruce Cameron:

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In the absence of the chief executive of Fieldays we haul in, at short notice, the chairman of Zespri to join and the GM of the Waikato Coromandel Drug Detection Agency.

Fiona Gower:

We catch up with the Port Waikato-based National President of Rural Women New Zealand to find out what her organisation is doing to help rural women through the Covid-19 lockdown and what are some of issues facing women in the provinces.

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Steve Wyn-Harris and Grant McCallum:

Today's second panel features a Central Hawkes Bay sheep farmer and a Northland cow cocky.

Andy Thompson and Craig Wiggins:

Our final panel features a former West Coast cow cocky and Mid Canterbury cowboy (of sorts).

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