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Season 2 Ep 1: Rabbits & other Pests
No-one knows for sure who first introduced rabbits to New Zealand, because no-one wanted to take the blame for what became one of New Zealand's biggest environmental and economic disasters. We start… Video
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Best of 2021: Kiwi ingenuity
Audio 16 Dec 2021Best of 2021: Whether it's 'cowgorithms', posts made from recycled plastics or reimagining the wool sector, we spoke to some clever Kiwis this year.
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The gruesome picture of a chicken meat farm
Breeding fast-growing chickens for meat means top-heavy birds stumbling around in giant sheds. But New Zealand doesn't have an option to grow them slowly. Audio
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On the Farm - a wrap of farming conditions around NZ
Northland has received welcome and significant rain while the South Island is still on the hunt for moisture. Audio
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Sheep: Intelligent, exuberant, and often homosexual
Philip Armstrong knows a lot about sheep, he has even written a book about them. He's a cultural historian from Canterbury University and shares some interesting insights into their behaviour. Audio
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On the Farm - a wrap of farming conditions around NZ
Avocados are coming off trees thick and fast and retirees are putting their hands up for seasonal work in Central Otago. Audio
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The unsung heroes behind the hand-painted photos of NZ's past
Peter Alsop's new book Wonderland collects some of the striking hand-coloured photographs captured around New Zealand in between the 1950s and 1970s. Audio, Gallery
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Goat farming in the greater Auckland area
Patumahoe farmer Matt Bolton runs the country's largest goat farming operation, milking more than 5,000 goats a day and demand for goat milk is growing. He runs two neighbouring properties, Oete Farm… Audio, Gallery
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NZ wool industry facing challenges
The chair of the National Council of New Zealand Wool Interests, Craig Smith, speaks to The Panel about the challenges facing the wool industry. Audio
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Regional Wrap
The Hawkes Bay countryside has been transformed by winter rain. In the McKenzie Basin, merino shearing is underway. Audio
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Geraldine farmers go to bat for endangered species
Award winning wagyu beef farmers Evan and Clare Chapman were going to cut down a row of willows at their Kakahu property until they discovered a colony of long-tailed bats/pekapeka had made the old… Audio, Gallery
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Regional Wrap
Around Pukekohe, warm dry days have continued and growers have maintained the costly task of irrigating outdoor crops. Harvest is progressing well in Canterbury but, despite the dry weather, it has… Audio
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Regional Wrap
Hawkes Bay is looking for rain to freshen things up and get autumn growth moving. There is plenty of feed on farms but it is not good quality. Calf sales have got underway in South Otago and prices… Audio
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Tumblin' Down
Not that long ago, the New Zealand economy was built on sheep, sheep and more sheep. We were asking for economic trouble and in the late 1960s, we got it. Produced by Justin Gregory. Audio
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On the Farm: Our guide to what's happening in rural New Zealand
Beautiful gentle rain has been falling in King Country and Nelson/Mouteka has had a good dose too. Audio
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Jock Phillips
Just before starting this summer show we found out about a project by the historian and writer Jock Phillips. He's writing a book about the social history of New Zealand, embodied in 100 objects. He… Audio
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On the farm: our guide to what's happening on farms in the lead up to Christmas
Taranaki is well set up. There's been plenty of rain and lots of silage and hay cut. Milk production is about 7 percent. In Southland there's heaps of baleage being made and everyone's getting the… Audio
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How NZ can make its primary industries sustainable
New Zealand's reliance on volume-based commodities - currently dairy and tourism - and their environmental impact is a problem tackled in a new research-based book that goes to the industry for… Video, Audio
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Broadcaster stands by Pacific Islands 'leeches' claim
"The Pacific Islands don't matter. They are nothing but leeches on us." Newstalk ZB broadcaster Heather du Plessis Allan told listeners this week she stood by her recent comments in the face of… Audio
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Mediawatch Midweek: 12 September 2018
Mediawatch Midweek is a weekly catch-up between Mediawatch and Lately's Karyn Hay. This week: controversial comments about the Pacific Islands; a deep dive into the fertiliser; the GFC ten years on… Video, Audio
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McPhee's Dorpers
Canterbury vet Jim McPhee runs a Dorper sheep stud on his small farm near Darfield. The meat-focused Dorper is attracting interest from farmers because the breed sheds their own wool, which eliminates… Audio
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Farming Talk Fest: part two
Country Life hosts a round table discussion looking at some of the key challenges facing farming in New Zealand. Two people who earn their living as dairy farmers as two people who argue current… Audio
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Farming Talk Fest: part one
Country Life hosts a round table discussion looking at some of the key challenges facing farming in New Zealand. Two people who earn their living as dairy farmers as two people who argue current… Audio
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The Butcher's Shop series
From the Sunday roast to putting out the milk bottles, and those scratchy woolen jerseys knitted by Nana. Our primary products are a huge part of New Zealand culture. Audio
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Raising the Baa
Robert Gardyne, a sheep farmer from Oturehua in Central Otago, was crowned lamb Producer of the Decade at the recent Beef and Lamb New Zealand Golden Lamb Awards, aka the Glammies. Audio
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The Bottom Line
Two generations of the Craw family farm together on a collection of seven blocks of coastal hill country on the north eastern reaches of Banks Peninsula. Their passion and farming expertise has been… Audio
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Clayton Station
There is no such thing as a dull day for Hamish Orbell at Clayton Station, a diverse, high county farming operation near Fox Peak ski field at the head of the Fairlie basin. Whether he's moving Ewes… Audio
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Totara Estate
New Zealand's first shipment of frozen mutton was slaughtered at Totara Estate and sent to Britain from Port Chalmers in 1882. It was the beginnings of New Zealand's multi-billion dollar frozen meat… Audio
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Survey shows meat, dairy farmers expecting bleak year
Audio 4 Feb 2013A survey of farmers' confidence shows meat and wool farmers are expecting a bleak year, as dry weather and the high New Zealand dollar hurts their profits. Audio
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Intro and guest
Audio 6 Nov 2009Mike Peterson, the chairman of Meat and Wool New Zealand talks about the budgets cuts that are being made after farmers voted to cease funding the wool levy Audio