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Country Life for Friday 28 October 2011

  • Udderly Robotic

    farming Canterbury

    9:27 PM.Cosmo Kentish-Barnes visits New Zealand's first commercial robotic dairy farm near Ashburton where cows milk themselves when they want to. Read more Audio

  • Islands of Intrigue - Episode 7

    9:27 PM.The Country Life team continue their epic movie trailer adventure. Audio

  • Avocado Picking

    9:18 PM.Avocados for the domestic and overseas markets are coming off trees thick and fast. It will be the biggest crop ever picked in New Zealand and Country Life joins those on the hydra ladders picking the… Read more Audio

  • Gidday and Regional Wrap

    9:05 PM.With gas supplies cut and dairy factories closed, many dairy farmers had to tip several milkings out, but otherwise the spring is looking really good in the North Island, while in the South Island… Read more Audio

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Hinata, a farm worker from Brazil and Ryan Carr in front of three Lely Astronaut A3 milking robots at Stradbrook Robotic Dairy farm.

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A close-up of a cow being milked by a robot.