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.

Today's edition of The Country is all about Andrews and Nathans. We chucked a Ben in there too just for diversity.

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!

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

Northland farmers and possum trappers are being warned to take care around animals after a spike in cases of leptospirosis. Leptospirosis

It's a sin! Not only is Jamie playing the Pet Shop Boys but the FMG Young Farmer of the Year Grand Final is not on the TV until eight days after it has finished!

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.