Duncan Smith

Country Life this week learns about gumboot throwing and meets an award-winning Taihape local who promotes the sport. The show also takes you to a farm in Duntroon in North Otago. Millions of years… Audio

The sap seems to be flowing a little earlier than normal in a Gisborne vineyard and sheep farmers in Central Otago are busy pre-lamb shearing but it's been hard keeping yards dry. Audio

New born lambs in Wairarapa welcomed the sun on their backs at the end of the week after a wet start to the week. In Southland, calves are starting to appear across the countryside. Audio

Orange growers in the Gisborne region are getting good returns and the clean-up continues on inundated farms and vineyards in the South Island. Audio

Hawkes Bay's Clifton Station has plenty going on to keep its owners busy. The Gordon family are working hard to keep the historic farm viable into the 21st century with carbon farming, a new breed of… Audio

Lettuces are in short supply after frosts and rain in Southland has left farms muddy underfoot. Audio

June was a fabulous month for growth in the North Island. In the South, Marlborough's welcomed 100 millimetres of rain. Audio

In the North Island there's been an awful lot of rain with the whole East Coast receiving a huge downpour, in the South Island South Otago and Southland farmers are having a reasonably kind start to… Audio

Some sizable apple developments are going in around Waipawa in Hawke's Bay, but labour is limiting investor enthusiasm, while in the South Island, south Otago farms are dry underfoot and feed… Audio

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. Audio

Taranaki is looking lush and in the South Island kiwifruit vines are being very carefully pruned in Nelson. Audio

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… Audio

Very welcome rain fell on the East Coast, along with freezing temperatures in many places of the North Island. It was similiar in the South Island with cracking frosts and sunny days. Oturehua had a… Audio

The green kiwifruit harvest is underway in the north where winter is making its presence felt and in the south feed is being trucked from the West Coast to bone dry farms in the east. Audio

Lovely rain this week in the north has not been so welcome on Bay of Plenty orchards in the midst of kiwifruit harvest and there's been sleet, snow and some wicked frosts down south. Audio

It's bone dry on the East Coast of the North Island, a hunter out near Hikurangi says in the 20 years he's gone out it's never been so dry and Marlborough is still hunting for rain while the West… Audio