In this weeks “Newsmaker” show of Sarah’s Country :

- Summerfruit NZ chair Tim Jones discusses how bad weather has hit the harvest hard in the South Island decimating apple and cherry crops leaving growers in a dire situation on top of the major labour shortage

- Outgoing Rural Women New Zealand president Fiona Gower explains that Rural Women New Zealand is more than the ‘tea and scones brigade’ as she reflects on her four years with the organisation

- Megan Whitehead had a record-breaking day in the woolshed smashing the solo female eight hour sheep shearing record of 661 lambs beating Emily Welch’s 2007 record.

- And, we get the latest long-range rural weather forecast with Phil Duncan - will this cyclone bring the wintry blast and rain that is being predicted?

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