Rural

Jack Perkins from the RNZ Spectrum programme is talking to Phyl Christie and Joan Poulton about their childhoods growing up on Clarence Reserve Station, inland from Kaikoura. Their father Percy… Audio

We're back at Te Hera Vineyard where winemaker John Douglas has had an unusually solitary time, thanks to Covid-19, nurturing his fermenting grapes, measuring sugar levels and pressing the grapes… Audio

Farmers in most parts of the country are longing for rain forecast for this weekend. RSE workers have finished long seasons in New Zealand but many can't get home to the Pacific because of Covid-19… Audio

A couple looks back on their first year of farm ownership - a wet winter, a drought, a disease they had never seen and, for the first time ever, managing stock on hills. Audio

The West Coast's mayors are calling on the government to relax the lockdown rules in their region to save jobs and businesses.

There are no active cases of Covid-19 in the West Coast DHB area and… Audio

Apple growers have filled our fruit bowls and bolstered our export coffers, while harvesting a bumper crop and maintaining strict social distancing for their workforce. It’s been a nightmare. Audio

Yields for the 2020 wheat, barley and oat harvest are up 16 percent compared to last year, according to a new industry survey.

Maja Burry has the rural news. Audio

News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

Are community checkpoints legal or illegal? Volunteers have run community checkpoints throughout the lockdown, with professional traffic management help, pulling cars over and questioning motorists… Audio

An iwi roadblock north of Whangārei remains in place under level three, with volunteers reporting huge increases in traffic.

As questions remain over the legality of such checkpoints, some drivers… Video, Audio

Wool auctions aren't expected to resume until the middle of next month as the exporters here wait for more certainty around market conditions.

Maja Burry has the rural news. Audio

News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

Fonterra has announced it will start paying its farmers earlier from next dairy season.

Maja Burry has the rural news. Audio

News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

Two big farming groups are urging the Climate Change Commission to align domestic policy with its international promises.

Maja Burry has the rural news. Audio

News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

Lavender Fields was one of New Zealand's first lavender farms. Jim Curnow started with two plants which gave him hundreds of cuttings. Audio