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Country Life for Friday 9 September 2022

  • Previous Episode: Friday, 2 September 2022
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  • Canterbury sheep farmers roll out woollen exercise mats

    business farming
    Jane Schwass with a woolen exercise mat

    11:32 AM.Best of 2022 - With crossbred wool prices remaining low, Canterbury sheep farmers Jane and Mark Schwass are producing exercise mats with their wool clip. Read more Audio

  • A day out whitebaiting - 'It's just what we've always done'

    rural Wellington
    Whitebait fritters are all part of the tradition

    9:19 PM.This year the whitebaiting season for most of New Zealand has been cut short by six weeks to help boost declining fish numbers. Country Life spent a morning keeping up tradition with some long-time… Read more Audio

  • Daisy Lab - milk protein without the moo

    farming Auckland
    Emily McIsaac, Daisy Lab co-founder

    9:11 PM.New Zealand start-up, Daisy Lab, is making milk protein from microbes through precision fermentation, a technology which has the potential to be a major disruptor of NZ's multi-billion dollar dairy… Read more Audio

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

    rural farming
    ewe and newborn lamb

    9:07 PM.A southerly cruised through the Bay of Plenty making it miserably cold for staff continuing to prune kiwifruit. Bud burst has started in Marlborough vineyards. Some growers have been fighting frosts… Read more Audio

  • Country Life for 9 September 2022

    rural farming
    Kiaora Downs

    9:05 PM.Country Life is out whitebaiting on the first day of the season and chats with the co-founder of a NZ start-up developing a process which could disrupt the dairy industry and Cosmo Kentish-Barnes… Read more Audio

  • Previous Episode: Friday, 2 September 2022
  • Next Episode: Friday, 16 September 2022
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