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Country Life for Friday 19 February 2016

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  • Forage to Feast
  • Dairy Series: Pregnancy Testing
  • Dairy Recruitment John Fegan
  • Foreign Correspondent - Finland
  • Regional Wrap
  • Forage to Feast

    food rural

    9:16 PM.Sixty food and wine lovers spend a morning picking, foraging, digging, fishing and even shooting a host of foods in the Waipara Valley. In the afternoon eight top chefs convert the fresh bounty into… Read more Audio, Gallery

  • Dairy Series: Pregnancy Testing

    rural farming

    9:22 PM.Ask Robin Yeoman what he likes about being a dairy cow pregnancy scanner and he says, "the money". Then, more seriously, he says meeting all the farmers, chatting to them, and driving around the… Read more Video, Audio

  • Dairy Recruitment John Fegan

    rural farming

    9:05 PM.Some dairy farmers have been laying off staff as they look at ways to reduce costs. Read more Audio

  • Foreign Correspondent - Finland

    rural farming

    9:32 PM.Asko Miettinen farms 40 cows in Finland. Milk prices to farmers have dropped 25 per cent. Read more Audio

  • Regional Wrap

    9:09 PM.Horowhenua at last has had some rain, it's been a terribly trying February, but now facial eczema spores are rocketing away. In the South Island useful rain has fallen in some areas and hot dry days… Read more Audio

  • Previous Episode: Friday, 12 February 2016
  • Next Episode: Friday, 26 February 2016
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