Country Life for Friday 31 July 2015

9:16 PM.Charlie Owen's fruit is ready a few weeks ahead of most other Hawkes Bay orchards, He grows apples, nectarines, apricots, peaches and plums for the domestic market in a micro-climate a few kilometres… Read more Audio

9:30 PM.Andrew and Michelle McPherson are 50:50 sharemilkers with 540 cows on a farm south of Hamilton, at Paterangi. Calving is one of the busiest and most stressful times of the year. The first in a… Read more Audio

9:45 PM.More than 50 years ago Dave Withers was a musterer on the North Island's vast Ngamatea Station. Musterers and teams of dogs would head out for weeks on end combing the rugged landscape for mobs of… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:05 PM.Mairead Fox has won the national women's gumboot throwing title and is off to compete in Italy. Audio

9:10 PM.In the North Island calves are arriving thick and fast but in Southland, cows are still coming home from winter grazing. Audio