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The Country - Storm edition

The Country
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Today on The Country, Jamie Mackay is playing Bohemian Rhapsody, so asks weather expert Phil Duncan if we're to expect "thunderbolt and lightening (very, very frightening)."

On with the show:

Phil Duncan:

Monday's resident weather expert warns of thunderbolt and lightning - very, very frightening - especially for horticulturalists.

Tom Martin:

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We catch up with our new UK correspondent who goes by the moniker of Farmer Tom, one of Britain's biggest social media influencers in agriculture. Today Tom covers Brexit, the summer drought, the All Blacks on tour in England and Ireland and the Royals on tour here in Godzone.

Wayne Langford:

Is a Golden Bay farmer and the Federated Farmers National Dairy Vice Chair who has spoken out very bravely about how he battles depression by prescribing to YOLO (you only live once).

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Steve Wyn-Harris and Grant McCallum:

Today's panel features a Central Hawkes Bay sheep farmer and a Northland cow cocky as we ponder politics and prices.

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