Country Life for Friday 28 March 2014

9:05 PM.Federated Farmers president, and Hawkes Bay farmer, Bruce Wills, supports the proposal to build the Ruataniwha Dam. Audio

9:09 PM.The North and western parts of the North Island continue to slide into drought and in the South Island grape harvesting is in full swing and dairy farmers in Canterbury are looking at milking into… Read more Audio

9:11 PM.Wendy McGowan is the new president of Rural Women NZ. She and her husband Rusty share an interesting hobby which took them from Rotorua to North Cape and back for a weekend. She also talks about her… Read more Audio

9:20 PM.Last weekend the well-known rural cartoonist, artist and former land valuer David Henshaw died. His cartoons of farmer Jock have reflected every conceivable aspect of country life for the past three… Read more Audio

9:30 PM.Harvesting muttonbirds on the Titi Islands is a family tradition for Stewart islanders, Phillip and Zane Smith. Phillip has been a fisherman for most of his life and now he runs an eco tourism… Read more Audio