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Technology key to dairy's future
Could cows be toilet trained and how close will dairy farmers be to slamming emissions a decade from now? Dairy farmer Pete Morgan and agritech entrepreneur Craig Piggott ruminate on dairy farming in…
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Pine trees to pay for agricultural emission bills
Northland farmer Roger Ludbrook is planting pine trees and reducing stock numbers so he can pay for greenhouse gas emission bills with carbon credits from his trees.
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25 Years of Country Life - Golden Pliers 2014
In celebration of Country Life's 25th birthday we will be delving into the archives over the next few months. This week we're watching expert fencers face off with their tools and technique at the…
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Hawke's Bay charity saves tonnes of food from landfill
Tons of perfectly good produce from New Zealand farms, orchards and processing plants, once destined for landfill, is being saved and filling fridges, pantries and hungry children's tummies around the…
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23 Years of Country Life - farewell to Carol Stiles
For 23 years, the warm, lively voice of Country Life presenter and producer Carol Stiles has been synonymous with RNZ's rural storytelling As she moves on from the job, Carol chats to Sally Round…
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Country Life for Friday 10 June
Country Life joins the queue to get free food at Nourished for Nil, a food rescue charity in Hawkes Bay and heads to a forestry block near Tokoroa for a discussion on forestry and farming. And we…
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Farming v Forestry - Friend or Foe
In a forest block near Tokoroa a 60-year-old tree is felled and turned into a cubic metre of wood. It will end up at the Mystery Creek Fieldays at the end of the year to give a visual representation…
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Country Life for 3 June 2022
3 Jun 2022Country Life joins Lot 8's 21st olive harvest and talks to the olive oil brand's owners Nalini and Colin Baruch who are among the Wairarapa's pioneering olive oil producers. The show heads back to an…
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21 Years making Olive Oil - 'It's New Zealand in a cup'
Country Life joins Lot 8's twenty first olive harvest and talks to the olive oil brand's owners Nalini and Colin Baruch who are among the Wairarapa's pioneering olive oil producers.
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Shannon Munro: dancing farmer and the new face of Dairy NZ
Best of 2022 - Shannon Munro is the young and vibrant face of the Dairy NZ campaign Join Us.
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Nevalea Alpaca fibre in great demand, farmers say
Best of 2022 - Neville and Leonie Walker are New Zealand's largest alpaca farmers, with 1,100 animals.
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Avocados thrive in sunny south
Richie Bocock believes his avocado grove on Banks Peninsula could be the southernmost in the world.
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Energy from the sun fires up vege packhouse
Growing veggies is in Robin Oakley's blood. The fifth generation grower was running a three hectare market garden before he'd even finished school. He started Oakley's Premium Fresh Vegetables in 1999…
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A milestone marked for meat industry
Celebrations have been held this week to mark the 140th anniversary of the first shipment of frozen New Zealand lamb arriving in the UK. George Berry has been researching the history of that first…
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Transforming the land is just the beginning
The Ngawha Innovation and Enterprise park is currently being built on 240 ha of land near Kaikohe. It is expected to create hundreds of jobs.
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Country Life for 27 May
Country Life this week visits an avocado grove on Banks Peninsula, a spud grower in Canterbury using solar power and finds out about the Ngawha Innovation and Enterprise park being built near Kaikohe…
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Country Life for 20 May 2022
20 May 2022Northland's wine industry is expanding, the region produces a tiny fraction of New Zealand's but it now boasts 40 keen grape growers, up from just two in the 1980s. And, a new fish screening facility…
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Small and proud - Northland's wine industry bears fruit
Northland produces a tiny fraction of New Zealand's but it now boasts 40 keen grape growers, up from just two in the 1980s.
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Missile shaped fish screen hits the Rangitata River
A state-of-the art fish screening facility in mid-Canterbury prevents fish from entering the Rangitata diversion race intake at Klondyke and being swept into the 67km-long canal scheme.
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Empowering rangatahi in the primary industries
Cheyenne Wilson is it's first chair of the Food and Fibre Youth Network. She tells Country Life it was established last year to give young people a voice and a place at the table in the agricultural…
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Dust for dirt - Waikato dairy farmer digs to find moisture
Waikato dairy farmer Peter Le Heron estimates this year's drought has cost his farm $100k in lost milk production.
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Country Life for Friday 13 May
Country Life this week heads out to sea with an Akaroa salmon farmer and meets pickers helping out with a bumper feijoa harvest in Hawke's Bay.
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Salmon farmer balances growth with sustainability
Akaroa Salmon's ocean farm floats discreetly in a tranquil bay near the heads of Akaroa harbour. Seventeen huge round netted pens are home to thousands of King salmon of varying sizes. Duncan Bates…
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A fleece as white as snow
Wool needs all the help it can get and Richard Kettle of Animal Health Direct says he has the answer to rejected wool due to staining.
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