Country Life for Friday 24 March 2017

9:29 PM.At the recent Rural Games in Palmerston North events including olive-stone spitting and egg throwing and catching, along with speed tree climbing, speed shearing and gumboot throwing. Read more Audio, Gallery

9:21 PM.Geoff Copstick, a Northland angora goat farmer, is also chairman of international aid agency ChildFund NZ. He says his rural roots mean he has a lot in common with aid projects involving animals and… Read more Audio

9:14 PM.Seventeen years ago, the blueberry-growing Furniss family found out colour-sorting machines cost $1 million to import, so they had a crack at making one. Now their sorting machine business has a $30… Read more Audio

9:05 PM.Robert Gardyne, a sheep farmer from Oturehua in Central Otago, was crowned lamb Producer of the Decade at the recent Beef and Lamb New Zealand Golden Lamb Awards, aka the Glammies. Read more Audio

9:10 PM.Maize is being harvested in Waikato and the first kiwifruit exports left for China this week. Marlborough farmers are busy setting up rotations around tupping blocks for ewes. In vineyards the bulk of… Read more Audio

7:30 PM.Country Life this week's throwing gumboots at the rural games, is sorting blueberries and meets the angora farmer who chairs Child Fund in New Zealand. Read more Audio