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    Country Life for Friday 4 December 2015

    • Previous Episode: Friday, 27 November 2015
    • Next Episode: Friday, 11 December 2015
    • Nuts about Koura
    • Morrinsville's Herd of Cows
    • Diary of a Dairy Farm - Silage Making
    • Guest - Dr Warren Hughes
    • Regional Wrap
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    • Nuts about Koura

      rural farming

      9:30 PM.Jan and Roy Johnstone's small farm in South Otago's Puerua Valley was owned by Jan's uncle before they bought it thirty years ago and they've been planting native and food producing trees there ever… Read more Audio

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    • Morrinsville's Herd of Cows

      rural Waikato

      9:22 PM.A herd of cows in down town Morrinsville is literally stopping people in their tracks. Forty-five life-sized, fibreglass cows have been painted and dotted around the town. Each one tells a story. Read more Audio, Gallery

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    • Diary of a Dairy Farm - Silage Making

      rural farming

      9:16 PM.Farmers make silage when they have an abundance of grass. It's stored in stacks or in plastic bales and is dished out to cows when feed's short. Andrew McPherson made silage this week on his Waikato… Read more Audio

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    • Guest - Dr Warren Hughes

      Waikato

      9:05 PM.The National Agricultural Fieldays injected $396 million into the national economy this year. Dr Warren Hughes has been analysing the figures [{topics] rural, farming Read more Audio

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    • Regional Wrap

      rural

      9:10 PM.It's been a warm week around the country. The avocado harvest is half way through and cherries are coming off trees in Marlborough. Read more Audio

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    • Previous Episode: Friday, 27 November 2015
    • Next Episode: Friday, 11 December 2015

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