5 Jun 2020

Country Life for Friday 5 June 2020

From Country Life, 9:05 pm on 5 June 2020

Ewe scanning is underway in the north, which has seen more welcome rain this week and dairy farmers are catching their breath before calving in six weeks' time. Jenna O'Sullivan was born in the 90s and is working in her dream job at for livestock genetics company CRV Ambreed. Leftfield Innovation is looking for ways farmers can use their land to make high value food products that consumers want, It's investigating six crops we currently import but could grow and use to develop products. David Young makes and sells 100 types of wine on his small orchard 24kms south of Auckland. His family has been on the same piece of land since 1896. Award winning wagyu beef farmers Evan and Clare Chapman were going to cut down a row of willows at their Kakahu property until they discovered a colony of long-tailed bats/pekapeka had made the old trees their home. Now the couple is working with Environment Canterbury to protect them.