Country Life for Friday 29 July 2022

9:36 PM.The Onuku Māori Lands Trust is just starting its third season milking sheep near Rerewhakaaitu, south of Rotorua. One of its dairy cow farms was converted to dairy sheep in 2020 and the business is… Read more Audio

9:21 PM.In celebration of Country Life's 25th birthday we will be delving into the archives over the next few months. This week we're hearing a selection of stories that the team covered in the first year of… Read more Audio

9:15 PM.Aaron Dodd, Chief Investigator and Deputy Director of the Centre for Excellence for Biosecurity Risk Analysis, based at the University of Melbourne, chats about the foot and mouth disease risk for New… Read more Audio

9:15 PM.Children in war-torn Ukraine will hopefully have some winter woollies from New Zealand to keep warm in this winter. Knitting groups from around the country have taken up their needles for the… Read more Audio

9:07 PM.Around Taumaranui it's been time to get firewood stacked in the shed between showers. Scanning's done and lambing starts about mid August so the ewes are being moved to their set paddocks. Calving is… Read more Audio

9:07 PM.Biosecurity Risk expert, Onuku Maori Trust Sheep Milking enterprise, 25 Years of Country Life - Year One 1997: A Retrospective, Knitting needles are clicking for Operation Cover Up and the Regional… Read more Audio