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Foothills history the focal point for rural museum
The tiny Staveley Museum displays a photographic collection that tells the story of the foothills area of Mid-Canterbury including timber milling, coal mining, limestone quarrying, farming and family…
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Farm Talk - conversations with farmers around the world
A western Australian farming leader says supermarkets have taken control of the fresh milk price and dairy farmers in his state are only just breaking even.
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Beef and Lamb's Greenhouse Gas Calculator
Farmers will need to know how much greenhouse gas their farms are producing by the end of next year. There are at least ten tools at the moment they can use including Beef and Lamb's GhG Calculator…
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Healing the Land
A gully at the base of Mt Taranaki surrounded by dairy farms has been transformed into a food forest nourished by home waste. The family who live here save energy and water by farming on terraces and…
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Machinery-mad farmer wants future generations to value the past
Anthony Hampton has an impressive collection of Massey farm machinery and vintage tractors. Next year his farm is hosting the Wheat and Wheels Rally that is timed to celebrate the 175th anniversary of…
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Country Life for 22 October
Full Episode for Friday October 22 2021.
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Entrepreneurship scheme for Ni-Vanuatu seasonal workers a Pacific first
A new programme has been launched to help with the economic reintergration of seasonal workers returning to Vanuatu. People who have been working on orchards, vineyards and in packhouses in Australia…
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Country Life Friday October 15 2021
Country Life visits a dairy farm which is helping to test methods which might lower the environmental footprint of dairying and meets an entrepreneur who's taken New Zealand wool socks to the world.
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Farming for the Future
It's hoped a dairy farm trial in Taranaki can provide some answers for dairy farmers needing to lower their environmental footprint. Country Life visits the Gibson Farm near Hawera to check out some…
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Don't let the bed bugs bite...
Heiko Kaiser has a pest control business for all sorts of pests, urban and rural, but his interest in pests started when bed bugs were found in a resort he was running.
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Small feet stay warm thanks to Amuri Basin entrepreneur
Tracey Topp started making merino socks for children sixteen years ago. It all began when she struggled to find woollen socks for her two boys. Now her Cosy Toes brand has expanded to adult socks as…
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Country Life for September 24 2021
Farmers around the country have been paying big bickies for Beltex ram lambs. The new breed is a double-muscled, easy care sheep that offers meaty gains. Sheep dags are nourishing the soils of a…
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Country Life for Friday 8 October
Sheep milking at Kirwee, keeping fit for farming, hemp wool carpet is step closer, chook houses are in demand and the Regional Wrap.
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Hemp industry builds infrastructure to secure its future
Hemp New Zealand says it has a list of farmers wanting to grow hemp but markets need to be built and infrastructure secured before growing the production base further.
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Chook houses fly out the door
People wanting to be a bit more self-sufficient in uncertain times has led to a lift in demand for chook houses.
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Kirwee farmers launch new sheep milk products
A child with food allergies and a dairy intolerance has led a Canterbury couple to start milking sheep. Matt and Tracey Jones were so impressed by the difference sheep milk made for their daughter…
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Fit to Farm
Taranaki sharemilker Kane Brisco has set up an outdoor gym in one of his paddocks to help his mates and neighbours get fit for farming, especially the busy calving season. He says farmers are often…
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Rotorua teenager takes her ideas to the world
Eighteen year old Kaitlyn Lamb sometimes works in her family's vegetable garden at night because her days are so crammed full volunteering to improve the environment. She's the only New Zealander…
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Country Life Friday October 1 2021
Full Episode. Farming in the Future - Rotorua teenager takes her ideas to the world, Good seed makes a good crop, The Buzz on NZ's bee-keeping history and the Regional Wrap.
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Good seed makes a good crop
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The sowing season is in full swing at Andrew Currie's Avonmore farm near Methven in Canterbury. When Country Life turned up the third generation cropping farmer was drilling spring malting barley. -
The Buzz on NZ's bee-keeping history
Bee science has been used to save an elephant and the Queen is a fan of pohutukawa honey - a former president of the Bee Keeping Association has been digging deep into the industry's archives.
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An Update from UBCO
The New Zealand electric utility bike company UBCO is expanding in the US and United Kingdom and has recently moved into South Africa.
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Double-muscled sheep breed offers meaty gains
Beltex ram lambs are making farmers around the country lick their chops. Known for its heavy hindquarters and excellent kill weights, the breed is the sheep industry's new kid on the butcher's block.
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From Dumpster-Diving to No-Dig Greens
Solicitor Alexandra Morrisey ditched her office job, linked up with her best friend Victoria Sala and, with a baby on the way, set up a veggie box business using the time-efficient no-dig method…
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