Today's show is brought to you by the sweet sounds of 1986 including Slice of Heaven by Dave Dobbyn & Herbs, as we ponder the question, was Buck Shelford's famous rugby injury of 1986 more iconic than Colin Meads' perhaps equally famous broken arm of 1970?
Molesworth Station manager James Ward says the country's biggest farm has escaped relatively unscathed, while our panel David Broome and Don Nicolson praise Federated Farmers' response to the quakes.
Tom Wilson talks about on the controversial omission of Rowland Smith from the New Zealand shearing team, and we wrap up with our Roving South Island Farming Ambassador Dick Tayler, who's in Italy.