Duncan Smith

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… Audio

Lambing percentages are looking positive In King Country with plenty of twins frolicking around the paddocks. In Marlborough some vineyards are still tying and pruning their vines behind schedule due… Audio

Northland, Tasman/Nelson, Marlborough and West Coast farmers are once again dealing with flooded paddocks, slips, access roads blocked and significant damage following huge volumes of rain falling… Audio

Restore Native, Moving to the lambing beat, Food and friendship with Magic Beans and On the Farm - a wrap of farming conditions around NZ. Audio

Farmers In Waikato say they don't want any more rain for some time as July had double the usual amount. Calving is well underway In Southland and cows are munching their way through beet and swede… Audio

Putting a steak in the ground with heritage breed, The mandolin and the man behind the Country Life theme, Rongoā - a pathway to wellness on Te Mata Peak and On the Farm - a wrap of farming conditions… Audio

Dairy farmers near Tauranga say their paddocks are drying off nicely during drier weather this week and in Southland ewes are being moved onto crops before lambing next month. Audio

Country Life heads to the slopes with a very special dog who's training to sniff out people buried in avalanches. The team also meet a 23 year old poultry farmer and visits one of the country's oldest… Audio

Around Taumaranui it's been time to get firewood stacked in the shed between showers. Scanning's done and lambing starts about mid August so the ewes are being moved to their set paddocks. Calving is… Audio

Foot and Mouth, Okarito GorseBusters, Grass burger, Wool meets hemp on high country station and the Regional Wrap. Audio

Farmers in Wairarapa have been crutching and watching ewes. Conditions underfoot have dried out in Canterbury so stock are utilising fodder crops well. Audio

Northland soils are extremely wet so dairy farmers are continuing to stand cows off pastures where possible. Central Otago farmers are shifting breaks and feeding out stock and shearing is underway on… Audio

A farmer on the East Coast has just finished pregnancy scanning ewes, while some of the very early flocks are starting to lamb. Cows in Southland have settled on winter crops and sheep are break… Audio

A wrap of farming conditions around NZ, Tourism venture pivots to Teaching, Rayne Bradley reaches the halfway mark, Capturing Tuna and Healing Maori land through hemp. Audio