Do you know your GDT from your OMG? The Country's Jamie Mackay is here to teach you the ways of the agricultural acronym!

SPOILER ALERT: Look away now if you're waiting for the televised coverage of the FMG Young Farmer of the Year Grand Final on Saturday. The Country's Jamie Mackay interviews the winner!

Dom is away again today so Jamie Mackay is running things on The Country. He catches up with the New FMG Young Farmer of the Year while bombarding us with Elton John's greatest hits. Who says Mackay can't multitask?

It's the best bits of last week according to Jamie Mackay as he chooses the choicest audio cuts from The Country for your aural delight.

Manuka honey is making a big comeback with plans to develop a $1.2 billion honey industry.

Craig Wiggins is at the FMG Young Farmer of the Year Grand Final. We won't see him for eight days though as it is televised next week. Wiggins is frustrated with the lack of rural content on the television in general.

Te Radar is in Timaru for day two of three at the FMG Young Farmer of the Year Grand Final, where we find the well-known New Zealander 'mooching' around.

It's all about the FMG Young Farmer of the Year Grand Final today. Plus Maori Language Week, politics, weather, wool...and Metallica.

Graeme Smith, owner of the Waikato-Coromandel branch of the Drug Detection Agency, wades into the debate about drug use and production

Rory Ferguson lives on a dairy farm in Milton, South Otago but not for long - he's just been signed with the Broncos. The Country Early Edition's Dom George spoke to him today.

Dom's wife's love for her new pet bunny has driven the notorious curmudgeon to write a column about the history of rabbit-genocide in farming.

The Country is brought to you today by a dairy dip and the music of man in black...Johnny Cash.

The Country previews FMG Young Farmer of the Year Competition Grand Final which gets underway in Timaru on Thursday, culminating on Saturday night with the awarding of the 'Cloak of Knowledge'.

As we count down to tomorrow night's Beef + Lamb NZ Sheep Industry Awards in Masterton, we head to London to catch up with one of the finalists who's been watching his son play tennis at Wimbledon.

Milk processing firm Miraka is tripling production to meet a growing thirst for its UHT products in China.

Evan Dick: We talk to a South Otago dairy farmer who's come up with a novel plan to solve the housing crisis and the labour shortage in rural New Zealand.

Jason Miller is a high-profile Southland sheep farmer who warns we must not underestimate the importance of Britain to our lamb industry.

Jamie Mackay has taken leave of his senses over Brexit and Dom is starting to feel the effects as The Country HQ descends into pandemonium.

Farmers Dairy chairman Andrew Hoggard says dairy farmers need to ask themselves what a smart level of debt is given the risk profile for the next decade.

Big buys at annual agricultural event are likely to be lower on the shopping list for some who are hurting, especially dairy farmers.

Tougher rules around the treatment of bobby calves will start before the spring calving season, but other measures on food and shelter will be delayed until next year.

Very low dairy prices have so far not translated into widespread forced sales of farms, but the coming spring and summer periods will be the acid test for many.

Alarm after tuberculosis-positive cow discovered at his farm.

Heartland Bank has told investors it is monitoring the dairy sector "with close attention".

Former president of Wanganui Federated Farmers says dairy farming is responsible for 80 per cent of the degradation of New Zealand waterways.

Hopes are running high that the first GlobalDairyTrade (GDT) auction for 2016/17 will show an improvement in dairy prices.

Farmers overall remain satisfied with their banks, according to a Federated Farmers survey.

The milk price of $4.25 per kg remains well below DairyNZ's $5.25 per kg estimate of breakeven.

Australian dairy farmers want the government's help in gaining security around milk prices.

The NZX is launching new dairy futures and options contracts as a way to lessen the volatility in milk prices.