World dairy prices have shot higher at the latest GlobalDairyTrade auction, with the GDT price index gaining 6.6pc.

Not many bosses would arrange for nurses, budget advisors and the IRD to come and talk to you about child support. But husband and

Professor Jacqueline Rowarth discusses confusion over terminology when it comes to 'pure and natural' and 'predator and pest'.

Fonterra's infant formula sales in China are running ahead of its expectations, chairman John Wilson says.

It's the whole show in one go! Today on The Country we're talking milk and playing 80s tunes.

We're all about giveaways on the show today. There's a bit of farming too if you listen very carefully...

It's the Don Carson Farming Muster. Chinese ownership of our agribusinesses, pea problems, Pokemon Go and Super Rugby all feature on today's week in review.

Fonterra will update its farmgate milk price and reveal earnings per share forecasts for 2016/17 on Monday.

The Country is off the West Coast to catch up with mayoral aspirant Andy Thompson.

Kiwi shearer Matt Smith has smashed the world sheep shearing record over in England in the first record attempt to take place in the Northern Hemisphere.

Don Nicolson and Dean Rabbidge are fired up on today's show. They called up The Country to voice their anger over the proposed Land and Water Plan from Environment Southland.

The Country's Jamie Mackay catches up with Richard Loe today to find out what's going on in his neck of the woods in the Waimakariri Gorge.

We'd better get into some serious stuff or Dom will get fired. Thank goodness for Don Carson and The Farming Muster.

Saturday mornings on The Country Early Edition means it's Craig Wiggy Wiggins time. Dom manages to catch up with one of the world's busiest men.

Today's theme is 1987 when the first Lotto tickets were sold in New Zealand. Dom celebrates with a bit of hair metal. There's also agricultural stuff so don't worry.

Head of Co-operative affairs for Fonterra in Northland Eric Morrison caught up with The Country Early Edition's Dom George today.

The dairy downturn has driven farmer-owned co-operative, Livestock Improvement Corp into the red.

Team Nathan on The Country: Today Minister for Primary Industries Nathan Guy chats to Dom about farming life around the globe and in his own backyard.

It's the whole show in one go! Today's show has an Olympics theme and is brought to you by Dom Boy George and running man Dick Taylor.

Farm prices are on the way down, led by an 18 per cent decline in the dairy sector over the past 12 months.

Ryan MacArthur is a Lincoln University student who heads the Handy Landys, a group of like-minded students willing to give freely of their time to the local rural community in Canterbury.

The top tunes from 1976 ushers in The Country today as Dom Boy takes over the reigns from a holidaying Jamie Mackay.

Craig 'Wiggy' Wiggins fills us in on the behind the scenes action at the FMG Young Farmer of the Year Grand Final and give us his opinion on the winner Athol New.

The Country is all about farming and footy today along with some sweet kiwi tunes from 1988.

Mark Townshend: We talk farming and footy with one of New Zealand's leading dairy farmers and a former Chiefs board member.

The Country's Jamie Mackay reckons Pita Alexander is an oxymoron because he's a charismatic accountant. Nice.

COMMENT: Dom George celebrates the achievements of rally driver Mike McLean and FMG Young Farmer of the Year Athol New in this week's Furious George.

Cameron Bagrie, the chief economist of the ANZ Bank agrees that low interest rates do strange things to investors as the property and equity markets surge around the globe!

The Country's Jamie Mackay caught up with Miles King about his exciting new Dairymeade milking sheep breed. Miles and his wife Janet

The Country's Jamie Mackay catches up Sir Brian Lochore to pick his brains about life on the farm and this weekend's Super Rugby action.