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    Country Life for Friday 16 December 2016

    • Previous Episode: Friday, 9 December 2016
    • Next Episode: Friday, 23 December 2016
    • Running Rangitaiki
    • Warm winters delay cherry season
    • A solution to strewn silage wrap
    • Valley Gatherings
    • Regional Wrap
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    • Running Rangitaiki

      rural Bay of Plenty
      Rangitaiki Station

      9:36 PM.Landcorp's Rangitaiki Station on the Central Plateau is one of the SOE's larger enterprises. It has tens of thousands of animals, including New Zealand's largest deer herd. There are 20 staff and over… Read more Audio

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      Running Rangitaiki
    • Warm winters delay cherry season

      rural Canterbury
      Peter Sargeant

      9:25 PM.West Melton fruit grower Peter Sargeant has had to cancel all his Christmas cherry orders because the season is running so late, but luckily his strawberry crop is ripe for picking and the punnets are… Read more Audio

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    • A solution to strewn silage wrap

      rural farming
      Helen Slattery

      9:17 PM.Helen Slattery's rural contracting firm is one in a small network of businesses across New Zealand that collects used plastic wraps from bales of stock feed and sends it for recycling. Read more Audio

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    • Valley Gatherings

      rural Marlborough
      Genevieve King at the book launch

      9:05 PM.Genevieve King has just published a book about the food grown, produced and gathered in the Clarence Valley north of Kaikoura. She is from a high country farm that has suffered huge damage from the… Read more Audio

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    • Regional Wrap

      rural farming
      Horses grazing in South Otago

      9:09 PM.Gentle amounts of rain have tickled the grass on many North Island farms, although eastern parts such as Hawkes Bay and Wairarapa are drying quickly in the strong winds. In the South Island Canterbury… Read more Audio

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    • Previous Episode: Friday, 9 December 2016
    • Next Episode: Friday, 23 December 2016

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