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    Country Life for Friday 8 July 2016

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    • From Hoof to Plate - Bycroft Artisan Meats
    • Sticky Fingers
    • Colin Cox: Pioneer Deer Farmer and Possumer - part 3
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    • From Hoof to Plate - Bycroft Artisan Meats

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      9:38 PM.Chris Carthy was twelve when he first worked as a scrubber in Taggarts Butchery in Christchurch. He went on to do his apprenticeship there too but since then he's travelled the world as a roadie… Read more Audio

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      From Hoof to Plate - Bycroft Artisan Meats
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      Beehives

      9:18 PM.There's a gold rush in the honey industry. Returns for manuka honey have skyrocketed and bees are in hot demand. Hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of beehives and other beekeeping equipment is… Read more Audio

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    • Colin Cox: Pioneer Deer Farmer and Possumer - part 3

      rural farming

      9:30 PM.Colin Cox was involved in the very beginnings of deer farming in New Zealand and with the development of possum fibre for use in clothing. He's written a memoir which Country Life has turned into a… Read more Audio

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    • Jersey New Zealand

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      Alison Gibb

      9:05 PM.Alison Gibb, who farms at Taupiri in Waikato with her husband Russell, has recently become the first female president of Jersey New Zealand in its 114 year history. Read more Audio

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    • Regional Wrap - Farmers on the Land

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      9:09 PM.Taranaki has had a couple of cracker frosts and Northland vegetable crops haven't like the wet, dreary weather. In Marlborough, ewe scanning results are up between 10 and 15 percent. Read more Audio

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      Regional Wrap - Farmers on the Land
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