Country Life for Friday 25 June 2021

9:40 PM.Jude Horrill and Brent Williams gave up glamorous jobs in IT and change management overseas to farm mushrooms in a container near Levin. Read more Video, Audio

9:23 PM.The talk around Alternative Proteins is maturing. Meat and dairy operators say they're complimentary nutrition and shouldn't be viewed as a threat, but rather an opportunity to provide customers with… Read more Audio

9:12 PM.The charity, Meat the Need was launched during last year's Covid lockdown. In its first 13 months farmers donated enough meat to make more than 430,000 meals. Read more Audio

9:07 PM.In the North Island there's been an awful lot of rain with the whole East Coast receiving a huge downpour, in the South Island South Otago and Southland farmers are having a reasonably kind start to… Read more Audio

9:04 PM.Country Life checks out what a couple of meat companies and Fonterra are doing with the challenge of alternative proteins and we meet a couple who used to be high flying execs overseas who are now… Read more Audio