Country Life for Friday 9 August 2013

9:05 PM.The heart-warming story of how two American city slickers came to settle in rural Wairarapa and the challenges they face living on the land. Read by the author Jared Gulian. Audio

9:11 PM.In the North Island the dry conditions are continuing so rain would be welcome. In the South Island the mild weather has been ideal for calving. Audio

9:16 PM.Twenty-two-year-old Jordan Smith grew up in Auckland, but he always wanted to go farming. Now this pin up boy for sheep and beef farming is loving life as a shepherd on a northern King Country farm… Read more Audio

9:29 PM.The supreme winners of the 2013 Ballance Farm Environment Awards, Craige and Roz Mackenzie, run an intensive arable operation near Methven in Canterbury that uses precision agriculture to maximise… Read more Audio