Country Life for Friday 27 August 2021

9:39 PM.North Otago vege grower Jim O'Gorman has spent the past 20 years studying the soil at his market garden at Kakanui. His research focuses on restoring to health and high productivity damaged land… Read more Video, Audio

9:27 PM.Vet Samara Johstone has returned home to Islay after working in New Zealand. She's busy running the family farming and tending the island's animals. Read more Audio

9:20 PM.Tests of a selection of plastics marketed as bio-based has found half of them are not all they claim. GNS and Scion have developed new tests that will verify if they are. Read more Audio

9:07 PM.In Northland dairy farmers seem to be well set up for feed for spring but beef farmers are feeling the pinch a bit. The vines are waking up in Marlborough and sheep are spaced out for lambing in South… Read more Audio

9:07 PM.WorkSafe NZ's Al McCone says two simple things could save many deaths a year in rural NZ. Read more Audio

9:00 PM.Country Life meets North Otago vege grower and soil expert Jim O'Gorman - otherwise known as Kakanui's dirt doctor - and catches up with a vet who has left New Zealand and returned to the family farm… Read more Audio