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Country Life for Friday 30 September 2016

  • Previous Episode: Friday, 23 September 2016
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  • Catch the Wind
  • Beautiful Brahmans
  • The Back Country - Those Holes!
  • Jane Paul talks about The Back Country series
  • Regional Wrap
  • Catch the Wind

    rural Wellington Region
    Ohariu Valley Wind Farm

    9:38 PM.Warren Bryant and three of his farming neighbours are behind the Mill Creek windfarm in Wellington's Ohariu Valley - a 26 turbine scheme that started harvesting some the capital's world class wind -… Read more Audio

  • Beautiful Brahmans

    rural farming
    brahman

    9:14 PM.Vanessa Corry is New Zealand's only registered breeder of Brahman Cattle. The huge, floppy-eared, loose skinned animals also have a hump and Vanessa's often been asked if they are camels or… Read more Audio, Gallery

  • The Back Country - Those Holes!

    rural
    Hole in One!

    5:00 PM.A demonstration of the wrong and right way to post hole digging. A dairy farmer in developed a simple machine to bore up to 600 holes a day. The film was made in 1954 by John O'Shea. Read more Video

    Coming up

  • Jane Paul talks about The Back Country series

    history rural
    Working on the farm in 1956

    9:22 PM.Jane Paul is the community programme co-ordinator at Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision. Read more Audio

  • Regional Wrap

    rural
    Taranaki Dairy farm

    9:05 PM.Soils are completely saturated in parts of the North Island - but on the west coast of the South, it's been dry. Read more Audio

 

 

  • Previous Episode: Friday, 23 September 2016
  • Next Episode: Friday, 7 October 2016
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