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Country Life for 7 July 2023
7:07 PM.This week Country Life heads to a bull sale in northern Hawkes Bay where slips and sinkholes from this year's cyclones have not held back the stud owners from their traditional celebrations and… Read more Audio
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A green fingered grower with tunnel vision
5:15 PM.Adrian Merhten's hydroponic journey began 20 years ago after being inspired by a local vegetable grower. He was a baker then, but now he's known in Hokitika as "The Lettuce Man". Read more Audio
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Hunting for Tai Rāwhiti - "I don't see deer, I see a food bag"
7:35 PM.A team of hunters heads out every five weeks to a hill country farm to harvest deer meat for Tai Rawhiti's food banks which have been under pressure after devastating weather hit the region this year… Read more Video, Audio
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Finding joy in retirement: Knocking toys into shape
7:23 PM.Knocker Harris started making wooden toys for his grandchilden - 12 years later he can't stop. Read more Audio
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On the Farm - a wrap of conditions around the country
7:07 PM.Wet conditions across much of the North Island are causing headaches and heartbreak for some, while the South Island is recording boomer seasons in parts, thanks to the wet. Kiwifruit harvest has been… Read more Audio
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Country Life for Friday June 30 2023
7:07 PM.Lettuce man, Knocker the toy man, deer hunting, monthly wrap of conditions on farm. Read more Audio
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Chef swaps cooking good food for The Good Farm
11:35 AM.The Good Farm – a raw milk producer and market garden in the Bay of Plenty – is a real family affair. Former chef Loren Gibbs tells us about trading in the heat of the kitchen for digging in the dirt… Read more Audio
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New direction for traditional farm
7:20 PM.With fields of crops, shimmering solar panels and several hundred Wagyu beef cattle, young farmer Ryan Cockburn is changing the landscape on his grandparents' coastal property. Read more Audio
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Treat youself like you would a broken tractor, says Rural Support Trust
7:14 PM.Taranaki branch chair Mike Green says we've not weathered the storm yet, but with support, we can. Read more Audio
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Rural News Wrap
7:07 PM.RNZ's rural news reporter, Leah Tebbutt, takes a look at the week's agricultural news. Read more Audio
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Country Life for 23 June 2023
7:07 PM.A new direction for a traditional farm, a chef swaps the heat of the kitchen for chilly mornings milking, and a chat with the Rural Support Trust on farmer wellbeing. Read more Audio
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Voices from Tai Rāwhiti
7:17 PM.From the back country to the coast, and the flats and rolling hills in between, you won't find many places or people untouched by the claws of cyclones Hale and Gabrielle which ravaged Tairāwhiti at… Read more Audio
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Rural News Wrap
7:07 PM.RNZ's rural news reporter, Leah Tebbutt, takes a look at the week's agricultural news. Read more Audio
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Country Life for 16 June 2023
7:05 PM.Country life this week heads to Tairawhiti to hear stories from the hill country to the coast..finding out how people are dealing with the desctruction from massive weather events this year Read more Audio
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Cow shed has the essence for coffee roasters
7:34 PM.Essenza is home to the best-smelling cow shed in the North Island. Where cattle once sheltered, Mike Jobling now roasts coffee beans. Read more Audio
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A quacking good win for Willow the Duck
7:14 PM.This year, for the first time in the National Poultry and Pigeon Show's long history, a duck is the Champion of Champions. Willow, a rare Silver Appleyard duck who hales from the South Island town… 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 June 9 2023
7:07 PM.Cow shed has the essence for coffee roasters, A quacking good win for Willow and the Rural News Wrap. Read more Audio
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In love with yuzu
4:35 PM.It's ancient, niche, sour and prickly - but what's not to love about yuzu? Country Life talks to Neville Chun about his passion for the fruit and follows it from the harvest to the brewery where yuzu… Read more Audio
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Tom the Young Farmer on his NZ farming experience
9:15 AM."It's going to be painful to go back to milking in a herringbone parlour after the speed that we're able to milk out in the rotary here," says Tom Everall, aka Tom the Young Farmer. The Shropshire… Read more Audio
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Composting barn better for cows and land, says Karamea farmer
7:23 PM.Frano Volkman's cows will soon be snuggling up on a thick bed of woodchips and sawdust in their new 6,300m2 composting barn. The organic fertiliser formed underneath Volkman's herd will be spread onto… Read more Audio
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On the Farm
7:07 PM.Wet conditions in Northland have not stopped all year destroying kumara crops. Arable farmers in Canterbury have been battling to get autumn-sown crops of winter wheat and barley in the ground as… Read more Audio
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Country Life for 2 June 2023
7:07 PM.Growing and brewing yuzu, a composting barn and Tom the Young Farmer, plus a round up of farming conditions around Aotearoa. Read more Audio
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Dairy farmer bridges cultural gap beside braided awa
1:32 PM.With the help of a cultural land advisor, North Canterbury farmer John Faulkner is creating a diverse mahinga kai - Māori food gathering site - on his riverside property. Read more Audio
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From Cockpit to Countryside: pilot cultivates aromatic acre
7:20 PM.With a spare acre or two wrapping around the house, Damian Paine's turned his paddock into purple. Acre Lavender Farm Read more Audio