The Country - Golden Gumboot edition

Fieldays is done and dusted for another year, but there's still so much to talk about. Plus Jamie catches up with this year's Golden Gumboot winner.

On with the show:

Phil Duncan:

Monday's resident weather expert talks about the potential for a mild winter and confuses the host with a basic science lesson.

Mairi Whittle:

We catch up with the Rural Catch Golden Gumboot winner who hails from the gumboot capital of the country and who took home more than $20,000 of prizes after heading off seven others for the title at Fieldays.

Bernadette Hunt:

Is a disgruntled Southland farming leader who takes MPI's Geoff Gwyn to task over his comments that he's not had a single farmer come forward to self-report a potential case of M. bovis.

David White:

Following all the recent talk of alternative proteins and a proposed meat tax, we revisit the documentary MEAT and talk to a man who spent two years taking an independent look at the industry and its future.

Steve Wyn-Harris and Grant McCallum:

Today's panel features a Central Hawke's Bay sheep farmer and a Northland cow cocky and the privacy issues around M. bovis are to the fore.

Listen to the show below: