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    Country Life for Friday 18 March 2016

    • Previous Episode: Friday, 11 March 2016
    • Next Episode: Thursday, 24 March 2016
    • The Fresh Grower
    • Flying High
    • New Zealand's Oldest Gumboots: Part Three
    • Bobby Calf Rules
    • Regional Wrap
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    • The Fresh Grower

      rural Auckland Region

      9:39 PM.Growing's in the blood for Allan Fong. His parents were market gardeners and now he and his brother have expanded their business and grow more than 200 hectares of leafy greens near Pukekohe. Allan… Read more Audio, Gallery

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    • Flying High

      rural Canterbury

      9:29 PM.Tracey & Scott Bowman started Oxford Bird Rescue in 2012 after they established that there was not a place in North Canterbury to take injured, abandoned or lost birds. Over the past several months… Read more Audio

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    • New Zealand's Oldest Gumboots: Part Three

      rural

      9:17 PM.Celeste Ventura of Ohakune still has her mother's ankle height, fabric rimmed, gumboots which were first worn on a trip to Ruapehu in 1952. She says her mother would've worn them with stockings, as… Read more Audio, Gallery

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    • Bobby Calf Rules

      rural farming

      9:05 PM.Scott Gallacher, the Deputy Director of General Regulation and Assurance for the Ministry for Primary Industries talks about the recently formed Bobby Calf Action Group. Read more Audio

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    • Regional Wrap

      rural farming

      9:10 PM.Wonderful welcome rain's fallen in Horowhenua and parts of Taranaki, but it's holding up apple harvesting in the North and South Island. Marlborough however is still desperate for rain. Read more Audio

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    • Previous Episode: Friday, 11 March 2016
    • Next Episode: Thursday, 24 March 2016

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