Country Life for Friday 3 June 2011

9:05 Intro and Guest

CEO of Landcorp, Chris Kelly, is keen to see the meat industry structured in a similar way to the kiwifruit or dairy industries and is heartened that farmers are at last realising the need to change their traditional way of dealing with meat companies

9:09 Regional Wrap

It has remained unseasonally warm in both islands and store stock prices are "hot".

9:26 Holy Cheese

Karikaas cheeses are all hand-made using traditional European methods by cheese-makers who are proud of their traditions and skill.

Cosmo Kentish-Barnes visits the cheesery in Loburn, North Canterbury, where the Dutch cheeses are made under the close eye of co-owner Di Hawkins.

Di Hawkins amongst many Gouda wheels in a storeroom at the Karikass Cheese factory in Loburn, North Canterbury.

9:28 The Last Colonial

Doug Wallace is a man who cares for the land. He has planted thousands of trees on his block of land near Taupo with a view to felling them for furniture making and firewood. But he has no intention of dragging the trees out of the bush. Doug has built a tram line-and, with the help of two horses, can remove the trees without damaging the forest floor.