The Country - Honours edition

Today on The Country we salute Sir William English, who was recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours List.

On with the show:

Phil Duncan:

Monday's resident weather expert makes a belated Tuesday appearance to preview some wintry weather coming our way after a wet and wild Queens Birthday weekend for much of the country.

Sir William English:

We salute one of the two long term correspondents to the show who were recognised in the Queen's Birthday Honours List. From Dipton farm boy, to the Treasury, to local Southland MP, to Minister of Finance guiding the country through to the GFC, to Prime Minister to Knight. It's been some journey!

Marise James:

Is a Taranaki-based business advisor and agriculture specialist who says the emotional fallout form M.bovis is likely to be even greater than the business cost.

Murray Hartin:

We catch up an Australian Bush Poet who wrote a moving piece "Rain from Nowhere" about rural suicide, a sad tale with a happy ending.

Andy Thompson and Grant "McNational" McCallum:

Today's panel features a broken-down former West Coast cow cocky and a real dinkum dairy farmer from Northland.

Listen below: