Country Life for Friday 14 April 2017

9:29 PM.Country Life's Cosmo Kentish-Barnes was very thankful for his gumboots when he visited the extremely muddy South Island Field Days in Kirwee. The three-day event is the oldest and biggest… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:21 PM.Tutsan's days are numbered. Thanks to years of fundraising and work by a team of mainly volunteers, the invasive weed is now on the menu for a moth and a beetle that have been brought to New Zealand… Read more Audio

9:14 PM.Kerikeri kiwifruit grower Sandy Mecredy wanted to hear her daughter and friends biting into golden wafers of thin kiwifruit, so ten years ago she started drying the fruit that was rejected by a nearby… Read more Audio

9:05 PM.Ashburton farmer Eric Watson has become a Guinness World Record holder after producing the world's highest yielding crop of wheat. Read more Audio

9:10 PM.Many North Island farms have saturated soils after a week of rain and in-between the downpours contractors are trying to harvest maize. In the South Island rain is destroying grape crops in Malborough… Read more Audio

9:01 PM.South Island Field Days, Tutsan Action Group, Kiwi Bites, Wheat Growing Record. Read more Audio