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Country Life for Friday 26 August 2022

  • Previous Episode: Friday, 19 August 2022
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  • Sniffing dog stops wallabies skipping south

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    Amy Knopers, Toby and Blake Clinch from High Country Contracting

    11:17 AM.A cute detection dog called Toby is helping an Otago pest control team track down wily wallabies crossing the Waitaki River.  The  Aussie imports are escaping South Canterbury's Wallaby Containment… Read more Audio

  • Sheep farmer struggles to control huge hungry hoppers

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    Wallaby country - Walter Cameron with a wallaby he has shot

    9:39 PM.Best of 2022 - Back in the 1950s, a group of wallabies turned up at Wainui Station... and never left.  Read more Audio

  • A dive back in time with poet Mike McGee

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    Cam Stevenson, and his border collie Pig, are part of a hit team of professional hunters tasked with cleansing the area of feral goats.

    9:29 PM.For more than fifty years Whanganui man Mike McGee hunted and tramped in the bush and ranges of the North Island. The love of the outdoors was in his blood and spurred him to write many poems about… Read more Audio

  • On the Farm - a wrap of farming conditions around NZ

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    9:07 PM.Lambing percentages are looking positive In King Country with plenty of twins frolicking around the paddocks. In Marlborough some vineyards are still tying and pruning their vines behind schedule due… Read more Audio

  • Country Life Friday Aug 26 2022

    rural farming
    Wallaby country

    9:05 PM.Sheep farmer struggles to control huge hungry hoppers, Sniffing dog stops wallabies hopping south, A dive back in time with poet Mike McGee and On the Farm - a wrap of farming conditions around NZ. Read more Audio

  • Previous Episode: Friday, 19 August 2022
  • Next Episode: Friday, 2 September 2022
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