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The Country - Ram edition

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Steve Wyn -Harris is giving away a ram on today's show. Photo / Marlow Coopworths

Steve Wyn -Harris is giving away a ram on today's show. Photo / Marlow Coopworths

Today on The Country, panellist and notorious skinflint Steve Wyn-Harris is giving away a $1300 ram!

On with the show:

Phil Duncan:

We ask Monday's resident weather expert the question on every farmers' lips – when is it going to rain?

David Connelly:

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We go 'Outback with Allflex' to yarn to David Connelly of Tipperary Station, a massive beef operation in the Northern Territory with an even bigger crocodile problem, as we continue our weekly series profiling some of the leading lights in the Platinum Primary Producers Club -comprising 150 of the largest and most productive farmers across Australasia.

Steve Wyn-Harris and Grant McCallum:

Today's panel features a Central Hawkes Bay sheep farmer and a Northland cow cocky, one of whom is giving away a free Coopworth two-tooth ram worth $1300!

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Chanelle O'Sullivan and Rowena Duncum:

We review yesterday's "Open Gates" as 40 Fonterra farmers nationwide opened their gates to the rest of New Zealand to showcase some of the great things happening on their dairy farms.

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