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Composting loo and eating insects because "why wouldn't you"
7:22 PM.Melissa and Aaron Jacobson are trying to live as sustainably as possible on their small property perching ontop a hill outside of Eltham, Taranaki and plan to turn their way of life into a full-time… Read more Audio
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Polo school programme aims to shed elitist image
7:16 PM.Teens from Flaxmere College are saddling up ponies and swinging mallets, learning to play the sport of polo. Read more Video, Audio
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Rural News Wrap
7:07 PM.RNZ's rural news reporter, Sally Murphy, takes a look at the week's agricultural news. Read more Audio
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Country Life Friday April 28, 2023
7:06 PM.Country Life is at Greystone Wines in Waipara, finds out how humanure is helping a Taranaki family's sustainability journey and chats to a polo club owner who wants to shed the game's elitist image. Read more Audio
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Trial vineyard has 4000 plants grown in lab
5:26 PM.Scientists are researching how "jumping genes" can be used to develop more robust pinot noir grapes that still have an iconic New Zealand flavour. Dr Ross Bicknell and Dr Philippa Barrell from Plant… Read more Audio
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Off grid and farming carbon
7:40 PM.Former Wellington mayor Celia Wade-Brown lives in a tiny off-grid house and regenerates native forest on a former sheep and beef farm on the flanks of the Tararua mountain range. The carbon… Read more Audio
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Tractor with the X-Factor
7:20 PM.It's 100 years since the distinctive all purpose Farmall tractor was introduced on a Texas farm aimed at replacing horses between the rows and reducing the need for a hired hand on small family farms… Read more Audio
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A pinnacle reached for pine nut producer
7:15 PM.Marlborough's Pinoli Premium Pine Nuts was crowned supreme champion at this year's Outstanding New Zealand Food Producer Awards. Co-founder Lee Paterson speaks to Susan Murray. Read more Audio
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Rural News Wrap
7:07 PM.RNZ's rural news reporter, Sally Murphy, takes a look at the week's agricultural news. Read more Audio
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Country Life for Friday April 24 2023
7:07 PM.Off-grid and farming carbon, scientists develop new variants of Pinot Noir grapes, a tractor with the X-Factor, pinnacle reached for pine nut producer and the wrap of ag news. Read more Audio
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Healthy home for chooks at clifftop egg farm
7:30 PM.When Anna Penn's flock of 3,000 hardy hens stop pecking and look up, they can watch waves crashing into the shore. They're residents at New Zealand's southernmost commercial egg farm, overlooking Te… Read more Audio
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'Salad bowl' paddocks keep cows smiling
7:19 PM.Sunflower-growing and virtual fencing are just the beginning at Rachel Short forward-looking organic dairy farm. Read more Audio
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Mongolian sheep shearers 'excited' about what new skills could offer back home
7:13 PM.A three-month stint with New Zealand shearing gangs has brought life changing skills to four Mongolian herders. Read more Audio
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Rural News Wrap
7:07 PM.Country Life has previously spoken about the damage to forest estates due to the cyclone - but are crews back at work? The cyclone has also affected the annual Kaimanawa Horse Muster, to control the… Read more Audio
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Country Life for 14 April 2023
7:06 PM.Cracking good eggs on a cliff, Mongolian scissors shearers, Sunflower paddocks on a Taranaki farm and a wrap of the week's ag news. Read more Audio
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For the love of wool
7:38 PM.Patrizia Vieno is originally from Italy but now farms sheep and beef at Tinui's Rewa Rewa Station. The farm has suffered after Cyclone Gabrielle but Patrizia has not given up her aim of establishing a… Read more Video, Audio
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A year on the farm: Stoked to win four good practice farming awards
7:22 PM.Genna says the New Zealand Farm Environment Trust Biodiversity Award acknowledges the couple's focus on protecting the 200 hectares of native bush on the property. Read more Audio
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The vertical farms of tomorrow
7:15 PM.A French agriculture professor developing new indoor plant varieties and an Auckland man installing vertical farming tech in private homes were two of the attendees at Aotearoa's first-ever Controlled… Read more Audio
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Rural News Wrap
7:08 PM.RNZ's rural news reporter, Sally Murphy, takes a look at the week's agricultural news. Read more Audio
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Country Life for Friday April 7 2023
7:07 PM.Country life this week heads to a sheep and beef station near Tinui which was badly damaged in Cyclone Gabrielle. But the scars on the land are not stopping the Italian owner from fulfilling plans to… Read more Audio
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A slice of Te Kupe: hairy sheep and drone mustering
7:22 PM.Taranaki sheep farmer Murray Jackson is looking forward to retiring his woolshed in a couple of years. He's phasing his family farm out of wool production to rear hardy and hairy Australian White… Read more Audio
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Ambitious farming sisters develop fashion and food hub
7:38 PM.The shearers' quarters at Davaar Station are a popular stop-off for locals and tourists on the Te Anau-Mossburn Highway. Inside, Anna Macdonald tickles their taste buds with sweets while her older… Read more Audio
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Golden Bay farmer opposes virtual fencing
7:15 PM.Golden Bay dairy farmer Tim Rhodes says virtual fencing is a worry for the dairy cow, the farmer and the consumer. Read more Audio
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On the Farm - a wrap of conditions around the country
7:07 PM.Sunshine's brought a sharp lift in fruit growth as kiwifruit begins its harvest, cooler temperatures are setting in and with grass growing in the South lambs can be fattened. Read more Audio
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Country Life for Friday March 31 2023
7:07 PM.Country Life meets two ambitious farming sisters who've developed a roadside fashion and food hub, a Golden Bay farmer opposed to virtual fencing and heads to Taranaki to find out about hairy sheep… Read more Audio