Country Life for Friday 27 October 2017

9:30 PM.With a passion for healthy living and a belief that conventional farming was affecting people's health, Southland farmers Lois and Robin Greer stopped using chemicals on their Tuturau dairy farm 15… Read more Audio

9:18 PM.A small yarn manufacturer in Napier has gone from employing 85 staff in its hey-day, to about 18 now. Cheap imports from China undercut wool knitting yarns made in New Zealand, but Design Spun has… Read more Audio

9:07 PM.Twenty years ago Ashley Turner experimented with making a stock whip out of synthetic materials. Much to his delight, it cracked. Now Ashley and his wife Carol make and sell 1500 whips a year. Read more Audio

9:10 PM.In King Country fine weather is let docking gangs separate thousands of lambs from their tails, and asparagus is growing better with warmer, drier conditions . Farmers in Canterbury are planting… Read more Audio

9:02 PM.Keeping it Natural, Cracking it, A Good Yarn and the Regional Wrap. Read more Audio