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Country Life for Friday 4 March 2016

  • Sheep Milking with Landcorp

    rural farming

    9:43 PM.Landcorp, in a joint venture partnership, has set up a sheep milking farm called Spring Sheep Dairy on the Central Plateau. Three thousand East Friesians have been milked this season with nearly all… Read more Audio

  • Kaimanawa King

    rural Waikato

    9:29 PM.Rockstar was rounded up in the 2014 Kaimanawa muster. Three weeks later the four-year-old wild horse had a rider on his back. He then went on to win the Kaimanawa Heritage Stallion Challenge; a… Read more Audio

  • Spinning the Wheel

    rural Canterbury

    9:17 PM.In 1940 Walter Ashford started making spinning wheels and weaving looms. 76 years on his son Richard and his wife Elizabeth Ashford are still running the family business that has made over 500,000… Read more Audio

  • Gumboots - Finding New Zealand's Oldest Pair

    rural farming

    9:39 PM.The Country Life team is on the hunt for New Zealand's oldest pair of gumboots. Most farmers attending the Kauroa Weaner sale near Raglan agreed that one or two years was their oldest pair. However… Read more Audio

  • Fiji - On The Land after Cyclone Winston

    weather

    9:05 PM.Horticulture consultant Kyle Stice says it will be many months before crops devastated by Cyclone Winston in Fiji are back in production. Read more Audio

  • Seed Saving for Cyclones

    farming weather

    9:10 PM.Sant Kumar has a nursery in Nadi and has managed to protect his plants from two devastating cyclones. When word comes through that a cyclone is approaching, he unclips and folds away his shade cloth… Read more Audio

  • Regional Wrap

    9:12 PM.Wairarapa has been sweltering while down south the ram is out on early country. Read more Audio