Country Life for Friday 24 November 2017

9:46 PM.In 1952, Edmund Jeff gifted his 2424 hectare property to the Salvation Army to be used for training underprivileged youths in agriculture. It's still a training farm 65 years on. Read more Audio, Gallery

9:27 PM.Don Shaw is an AI Technician which means at this time of the year he is up early visiting dairy farms every morning inseminating cows that have come on heat. It's a job thousands of people do between… Read more Audio

9:14 PM.The new CEO of kiwifruit marketing organisation Zespri has 15 years experience marketing kiwifruit and is currently based in Singapore. Dan Mathieson sees it as an innovative move by the company to… Read more Audio

9:07 PM.Hot, calm days are suiting bees on orchards, but Hawkes Bay hasn't had any significant rain for six or seven weeks and it needs some. Eastern Marlborough is drying up too so farmers are offloading… Read more Audio

9:04 PM.Learning on the Land, Active in AI, Zespri's New CEO and the Regional Wrap. Read more Audio