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Country Life for Friday 4 November 2016

  • Salty River Farm

    rural farming

    9:33 PM.Daryn Rickwood and Louise Penny were leading an urban life before they bought and moved onto a 20 hectare block near Wellsford. They've started raising goats for meat and have plans to milk them too… Read more Audio, Gallery

  • Golden Valleys Turn Green

    rural Otago

    9:18 PM.Central Otago is rapidly changing. Intensive irrigation has transformed once semi-arid valleys into lush pastures that support a growing dairy industry. St Bathans based landscape artist Grahame… Read more Audio

  • Oxville Farms

    rural farming

    9:20 PM.David Anderson, his son Neil and daughter-in-law Leah Stone have set up a tiny, licensed abattoir on their farm, half an hour from Whangarei. It can process up to 30 animals each day and puts through… Read more Audio

  • The Lingering Effects of Facial Eczema

    rural farming

    9:14 PM.Cows are still recovering on Carol and Kay O'Donaghue's Waikato farm following the worst season for facial eczema they have ever seen. Read more Audio

  • Regional Wrap

    rural farming

    9:07 PM.In Bay of Plenty gold kiwifruit are flowering and bees are being deposited around orchards while in Canterbury baleage contractors are flat out and recently sown kale and fodder beet crops are… Read more Audio

  • Guest - Warrick James

    rural farming

    9:05 PM.Glentunnel sheep and beef farmer Warrick James is the President of the 2016 Canterbury A&P Show, the largest agricultural and pastoral show in New Zealand being held in Christchurch at the ASB… Read more Audio