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Full Episode for Friday June 25 2021
Country Life checks out what a couple of meat companies and Fonterra are doing with the challenge of alternative proteins and we meet a couple who used to be high flying execs overseas who are now…
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Summer Series - Coming down to earth
Jude Horrill and Brent Williams gave up glamorous jobs in IT and change management overseas to farm mushrooms in a container near Levin.
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Alternative Proteins: It's An 'And' Story
The talk around Alternative Proteins is maturing. Meat and dairy operators say they're complimentary nutrition and shouldn't be viewed as a threat, but rather an opportunity to provide customers with…
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Meating the Need - Farmers donate animals to put meat on the table
The charity, Meat the Need was launched during last year's Covid lockdown. In its first 13 months farmers donated enough meat to make more than 430,000 meals.
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Rising Star: Ahuwhenua Young Māori Farmer Quinn Morgan
Quinn Morgan was recently named the Ahuwhenua Young Maori Farmer of the Year.
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Cuts and Korero
The Environmental Protection Authority was at Fieldays for the first time and invited farmers in for a korero and a haircut to find out what they think about measures to protect the environment.
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Full Episode for Friday June 18 2021
A lack of cellphone reception means more time to focus on developing a farm for a self-taught farmer in Manuka Bay.
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Paddock to Platter with Farmer Phil
Regenerative land management practices for animal and vegetable production are key for Phil Varley at his small but diverse farm nestled in the hills above Manuka Bay in North Canterbury.
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Country Life for 11 June 2021
This week Country Life is visiting a vegie patch on the Canterbury Plains and takes us to Nightcaps- a tiny coal mining town in the foothills of Southland's picturesque Takitimu mountains.
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Under Five Hundy - Nightcaps
Nightcaps residents are pleased newcomers are moving in to town and are renovating old homes. The population has fallen to about 350 but every day 120 people start work in the Southland town.
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Leading Agriculture into the Future
Dr Sue Bidrose talks to Cosmo about her role as CEO of AgResearch.
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Wiltshires without wool
Massey University is looking at the costs and benefits of farmers moving out of the wool business and into farming fleece-shedding Wiltshire sheep.
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Veggie growers rapt to finally own land
The winter crop of vegetables growing at Dominique Schacherer and Logan Kerr's market garden has turned 25 hectares of fertile earth into a sea of leafy greens.
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Country Life for 4 June 2021
Country Life talks to a farmer picking up the pieces after the mid Canterbury floods and takes a tour of a multi-million-dollar Rotorua building designed to showcase the sustainable use of wood. And…
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Te Whare Nui o Tuteata - The Way of the Future
Scion's new $14m building has been designed to welcome in the public and to showcase the sustainable use of wood.
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Picking up after the mid Canterbury Floods
Mid Canterbury farmer Rhys Roberts was badly hit in the floods last weekend. As CEO of Align Farms, he farms mostly dairy on two properties on the south side of the Ashburton River. The river was…
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Tracy Brown - Nuffield Scholar
Matamata dairy farmer Tracy Brown is among a batch of Nuffield scholars taking a closer look at New Zealand agriculture with overseas travel out of the question due to Covid-19. The Nuffield programme…
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Plumb crazy about crayfish
Strange fishy sculptures made out of recycled stuff are popping up on the shoreline at Riversdale. They're the work of country plumber Jeff Burnett, who can't keep his hands off junk.
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Diversity Key for Gorge Grower
When Jeremy Naylor bought Okainamu farm in the Upper Wairoa Gorge in 1982 it was a neglected grazing unit. Over time he's planted heaps of trees on the secluded property and transformed it into a…
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Creative in the Caroline Valley
Kim Spencer-McDonald says she knows a number of women who, as she did, have fallen in love with the farmer but not necessarily the farm. She says meaningful, stimulating off-farm jobs are difficult to…
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Farming Flavour - chocolate and chillies
Chocolatier Johnty Tatham and his brother Paddy who is experimenting with chillies are forging new paths as the sixth generation on a sheep and beef farm on the Wairarapa coast.
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Labouring On
Federated Farmers is asking its members to write to government ministers outlining just what impact the labour shortage is having on them and their farming operation.
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Choosing Calves
New Zealand's largest dairy genetics company LIC says more and more farmers are choosing the sex of their calves. They don't want to put bobby calves on the truck so are happy to pay more so ensure…
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Full Episode for Friday May 28 2021
Country Life meets two Wairarapa brothers forging different paths on the family farm, one makes high quality chocolate from whoa-to-go and the other is dipping his toes into the niche food industry…
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