Today The Country celebrates Jamie Mackay's illustrious career in broadcasting which started at Hokonui Radio 24 years ago.
On with the show:
Seth Carrier:
NIWA's weather forecaster looks back at an unseasonal autumn storm - 50 years to the day since the Wahine storm disaster of 1968 - and says while weathermen enjoy analysing meteorological extremes they don't like the effect they have on people and property.
Jacinda Ardern:
The PM ponders the OIO getting tougher on farm sales to foreigners, a gloomy Budget outlook, the state of health and education, whether the Greens have gone radical and whether Shane Jones is on a billion dollar ego trip around the regions.
Ed Pinckney:
We talk to the Southland farmer who was the under-bidder to the withdrawn [yesterday] Chinese bid for Landcorp's Jericho Station at Manapouri.
Steve Wyn-Harris and Grant McCallum:
Today's panel features a Hawkes Bay sheep and beef farmer and a Northland cow cocky of differing political persuasions.
Michelle Thompson:
We catch up with the Chief Executive of the Rural Health Alliance Aotearoa New Zealand whose organisation will move to shut down if it can't secure government funding tomorrow.
Listen below:
Motorists are being warned to drive 'carefully' as heavy falls start in Rotorua, Taupō.