Country Life for Friday 1 March 2013

9:05 PM.Howe Young has been growing vegetables for 50 years in Pukekohe and he's never seen it so dry. Audio

9:13 PM.The North Island continues in its parched state and the South Island is not too far behind. Audio

9:17 PM.This King Country farmer and board member of the Ruapehu Wanganui Rural Support Trust says sheep and beef farmers are sick of being blamed for not making money, and being told to improve their on-farm… Read more Audio

9:20 PM.Nearly all of New Zealand's strawberry plants are grown in Katikati before heading out to commercial growers. Keith Taylor's family has been propagating stawberries there for almost 60 years. Audio

9:28 PM....it's as good as it gets for a cow. David and Joanna Grigg's farm straddles the hills between the Awatere and Wairau Valleys in Marlborough and is part of a Lincoln University project driven by… Read more Audio