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Farmer sets tuna hinaki in lake after getting rid of algae
7:19 PM.Spencer Kahu has been farming in the Kaikōura District since he was 14. Now he's 24 and manages two large properties and for him, sustainability, conservation and gathering kai for the whānau go hand… Read more Audio
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Tour through the kiwifruit vines after frost causes devastation
7:13 PM.Kiwifruit orchard foreman Dave Trafford takes Leah Tebbutt through the vines on the back of the quad bike, where mere metres apart the vines change from luscious and green, to barren as if they've… Read more Audio
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On the Farm - a wrap of farming conditions around NZ
7:07 PM.Most farms are pretty short of grass in Northland and supplementary feed suppliers say there has been a big uptake. Strong wind has stopped spraying in its tracks for an olive grower in Wairarapa… Read more Audio
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Country Life Friday October 28 2022
7:07 PM.Country Life is at a lake brought back to life near Kaikōura, we find out the damage frost can do to kiwifruit vines, and meet two farm managers who no longer reach for their gumboots first thing in… Read more Audio
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Country Life for 24 October 2022
7:05 AM.Country Life has a few gems from the past year: Waipu goats cheese, traditional Maori healing in Hawkes Bay, and Palmerston North farmers test the waters. Audio
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Grassroots show a hit for punters
9:31 PM.It's not what you show it's how you show it and they get it right at the 152nd Selwyn Spring Show. After a two year Covid hiatus the Ellesmere A&P Association shows that any urban rural divide is… Read more Audio
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Pioneering UMF: A beekeeper's story
9:19 PM.After 25 years, Margaret Bennett is stepping back from an association she spearheaded. But there is still work to be done and she maintains she will be busy as a bee, but in the background. Read more Audio
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Mushroom-grower hangs up his cap
9:13 PM.Clive Thompson was a curious 16-year-old when he started out growing mushrooms back in the 1960s. More than half a century on, he's now selling his Wairarapa business Parkvale Mushrooms. Read more Video, Audio
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On the Farm - a wrap of farming conditions around NZ
9:07 PM.Weather has been kind in Bay of Plenty with enough sunny days to finally finish docking and creative juices have been let loose on the humble gumboot on the West Coast. Read more Audio
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Country Life for 21 October 2022
9:06 PM.Country Life chats to a mushroom grower who's been in the business for more than half a century, pops in on the pioneering couple behind New Zealand's manuka honey industry and shows off all the fun… Read more Audio
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A fine grind in Foxton
7:29 PM.Flour is being ground the old fashioned way, powered by wind in Foxton's 17th century style Dutch windmill. Country Life takes a tour. Read more Audio
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Emotions flow at family run bull sale
7:19 PM.The Timperlea Angus bull sale is one of the biggest days of the year for stud breeder Marie Fitzpatrick. It's also a time when her family get together to celebrate their love for farming and that… Read more Audio
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25 Years of Country Life - Our man in Pukekohe
7:13 PM.Throughout our quarter century we've relied on good hearted and informed people from around the country to share with us what's happening in their region. Their comments are compiled into the rural… Read more Audio
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Country Life for October 14 2022
7:07 PM.Country Life is at a bull sale in North Canterbury, hears from long-time Pukekohe correspondent Stan Clark and learns how flour is ground the old fashioned way, by wind, in Foxton.
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On the Farm - a wrap of farming conditions around NZ
7:07 PM.Bay of Plenty kiwifruit growers are counting their losses this week after a frost last Friday caused irreparable damage. Central Otago sheep farmers are nearing the end of shearing and lambing is in… Read more Audio
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Raising rock art awareness for future kaitiaki
7:10 PM.On the ceiling of a limestone cave in South Canterbury, a long, elegant sea creature has been drawn. Centuries after this taniwha [supernatural being] was carefully illustrated, the artist's pigments… Read more Audio
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Country Life for October 7 2022
7:10 PM.This week Country Life hops on board a truck heading out to clean septic tanks, chats to a 13-year-old budding scientist who's helping beef up cattle with an experiment involving copper and discovers… Read more Audio
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A farmer's son and budding scientist
7:10 PM.Thirteen-year-old budding scientist Finlay Ludbrook has had success with an experiment to see whether giving copper to cattle calves improves their condition. Read more Audio
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25 Years of Country Life - A Mucky Business
7:10 PM.False teeth and wedding rings are among Mac McLaren's finds during his decades in the business of cleaning out septic tanks. Read more Audio
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On the Farm - a wrap of farming conditions around NZ
7:10 PM.Cold and extremely wet is how most are feeling in Waikato. About 110 millimetres of rain has fallen this week. Snow fell across Canterbury this week to sea level. Grass growth remains very slow with… Read more Audio
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A year on the farm: Off to the local bull sale
9:21 PM.In this new series, Alistair and Genna Bird share the ups and downs of farming life across the four seasons. In part one, Alistair heads to the Timberlea Angus bull sale in search of a fine yearling… Read more Video, Audio
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Farmer Time gets kids focused on farming
9:13 PM.Best of 2022 - A new educational programme beams farmers into urban classrooms to talk about agriculture with school children. Read more Audio
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On the Farm - a wrap of farming conditions around NZ
9:07 PM.In the Bay of Plenty gold kiwifruit are in their full bud stage and the new red kiwifruit vines are starting to flower. In Otago one farmer says it' been one of the best lambing seasons in his 50… Read more Audio
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Country Life for 30 September 2022
9:06 PM.Country Life's new monthly series with Oxford farmer and youtube vlogger Alistair Bird starts this week - he'll be giving a monthly taste of his life on the land. In the first episode he tells us what… Read more Audio
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A scent of the past on Māhia Peninsula
1:03 PM.Best of 2022 - A plantation of ancient tītoki trees used for perfume is among the secrets unveiled by historian and writer Mere Whaanga who has researched the story of Taipōrutu - her ancestral land… Read more Audio