National Federation of Young Farmers' Clubs

What happened there? skim milk, whole milk, what was cracking along, cheese, all the details there.

We're going to talk to Rabobank's Michael Harvey out of Melbourne in the show, and also, of course, brother and sister Emma Poole and Tim Dangen from Down on the Farm in Waikato and Southland, our two former Young Farmers of the Year.

All that ahead here on The Country.

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Bit of Hello Sailor as we stand by for the great brother-sister duo, Young Farmers of the Year from down on their farms these days, Tim Dangen and Emma Paul, coming up here on The Country.

Well, one of my favourite times on the country when I get to sit in the chair for my cousin Jamie, as we say, Bo and Luke Duke is doing a bit of recovering at the moment.

And then sort of, it was that special thing of raising that awareness that, of mental health in the farming community.

And then I suppose the icing on the cake was raising, I think it was just over 55,000 for the National Federation of Young Farmers.

So yeah, a special journey.

Of that, I believe you actually had some royal support as well.

And in there was a bucket full of very dry sponges.

And on the bucket, it said the name of a local young farmers club, sort of rather crudely painted.

And it was clearly a sort of throwing sponges at members of the Young Farmers Club activity that must have run at Emerald Fate some years ago.

And so the legacy is a bit lingering.

We could bring that back, Ollie, for a sponger