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Country Life for Friday 24 May 2013
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Intro and Guest
9:05 PM.Cam Lewis and promoting career opportunities in agriculture to young Aucklanders. Audio
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Regional Wrap
9:08 PM.Pastures are making a steady recovery in the North Island while in the South, dairy herds are starting to make their way on to winter grazing. Audio
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Sheep Heaven - 24. Plant species for lamb growth
9:15 PM.Brett Te Whare discusses plantain and chicory as species to use for lamb growth. Audio
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Pacific Pesto
9:19 PM.Every week crates of basil are flown in from Fiji and are trucked to Levin. There, they are made into pesto. Genoese Foods is the largest pesto maker in the country, and it all started with a kitchen… Read more Audio
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Grave Matters
9:31 PM.The Otepopo cemetery in Herbert, North Otago, is perched atop a windswept hill with sweeping views over the district. Jim Craig, who farms the land around the cemetery and Herbert historian Dorothy… Read more Audio
Nancy Craig, Dorothy McKenzie and Jim Craig at the Herbert cemetery in Otago.
Brett Te Whare of PGG Wrightson kneeling beside five week old pasture.