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Country Life for Friday 25 September 2015

  • The Bottom Line

    rural farming

    9:30 PM.Two generations of the Craw family farm together on a collection of seven blocks of coastal hill country on the north eastern reaches of Banks Peninsula. Their passion and farming expertise has been… Read more Audio

  • Bird Rescue

    environment rural

    9:15 PM.Dawne Morton is "The Bird Woman of Whanganui". She's been part of the Bird Rescue Centre near the city for nearly thirty years. Every year over a thousand mainly native birds are nursed back to full… Read more Audio

  • Irish Dairy Farmers Feeling Militant

    rural

    9:05 PM.James Campbell writes for the Farmers Journal in Ireland and says dairy farmers in the north and the south of Ireland are feeling militant and want the minimum price for milk to be raised. Many are… Read more Audio

  • Regional Wrap

    9:11 PM.There was torrential rain on the North Island's east coast this week, and despite the lamb losses, farmers aren't complaining. Streams and wells had dried up so the rain will help replenish them. Some… Read more Audio