The build-up to the 2017 World Shearing and Woolhandling Championships begins in earnest this week.

"Imagine the biggest roller coaster in the world and being on it." That is how World Shearing and Woolhandling Championships organising

The Country: The world’s most decorated shearer previews next month’s World Shearing and Woolhandling Champs in Invercargill. Will Rowland Smith be attending the big event?

Joel Henare and Nathan Stratford both went back-to-back with competition wins over the weekend, gearing up for the World Shearing Champs.

Today The Country is brought to you by the impressive pipes of Adele. Why? Because Jamie likes her music and he's in charge!

Three weeks out from the 2017 World Shearing and Woolhandling Championships, organising Committee Chairman Tom Wilson is a happy man.

The world's most decorated shearer looks forward to the World Shearing and Woolhandling Champs in Invercargill on February 8-11.

Reigning world champion shearer Rowland Smith was the ultimate victim of one of the toughest of national selection series in any sport

Chairman of the 2017 World Shearing and Woolhandling Champs, Tom Wilson, talks to Jamie Mackay on today's edition of The Country about