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Country Life for Friday 5 December 2014

  • Pig Out

    rural farming

    9:28 PM.Patoa Farms has won the Lincoln University Foundation's South Island Farmer of the Year competition for 2014. Steve Sterne and Jens Raven purchased 400 hectares in Hawarden, North Canterbury in 1998… Read more Audio

  • White Goose Fruit Winery

    rural Bay of Plenty

    9:16 PM.Tony Firmin arrived in New Zealand 60 years ago on a ship carrying steel beams for the Auckland Harbour Bridge. He's now nearly 83 and prunes 1900 feijoa trees a year, makes fruit wine from feijoas… Read more Audio

  • The Best of a Pest

    9:05 PM.The Hauraki District Council is using a contractor with a pet ferret to kill the rabbits in its Paeroa cemetery. Local schools are also using this method to dispose of rabbits. Audio

  • Regional Wrap

    9:09 PM.Three hail storms in Hawkes Bay have damaged apple crops and in the South Island Marlborough is bone dry while Wyndham's A and P Show is cancelled due to the wet conditions. Audio