Rural
Iconic Waitākere track may reopen this summer
Auckland council has been doing major work to protect against the spread of Kauri dieback diesease. Video, Audio
Midday Rural News for 11 December 2018
Dairy farmers who sell milk to Fonterra are being offered price certainty from next season. Audio
South Korean company to develop NZ deer milk into moisturiser
New Zealand deer milk will soon be sold as moisturiser overseas.
Midday Rural News for 10 December 2018
The state-owned farmer, Pamu, has launched a partnership with South Korea's top pharmaceutical company Yuhan to supply deer milk for the manufacture of cosmetics. Audio
Deary Deer - It's a Calf
It's the time of year when hinds have their young. According to Raroa Deer Stud's manager Bill Robinson fallow deer have fawns and red deer have calves so Country Life's out trying to spot newborn… Audio, Gallery
Deary Deer - It's a Calf
It's the time of year when hinds have their young. According to Raroa Deer Stud's manager Bill Robinson fallow deer have fawns and red deer have calves so Country Life's out trying to spot newborn…
AudioPersimmons - A quiet achiever for Gisborne growers
Seventy percent of the national persimmon crop's grown in the Gisborne region. Growers are planting more trees as the export markets look promising. Audio
Persimmons - A quiet achiever for Gisborne growers
Seventy percent of the national persimmon crop's grown in the Gisborne region. Growers are planting more trees as the export markets look promising.
AudioRegional Wrap
In the Bay of Plenty, kiwifruit orchard bees are pretty well all through their pollination work. Some places here got well over 100mm of rain this week. Contractors on the West Coast are flatstick… Audio
Eat your greens!
Weeks of warm, wet weather in the Pukekohe district has lead to a glut of vegetables. Growers are getting as little as 30 cents per head of broccoli. Audio
Eat your greens!
Weeks of warm, wet weather in the Pukekohe district has lead to a glut of vegetables. Growers are getting as little as 30 cents per head of broccoli.
AudioFull Episode for Friday December 7 2018
A Fibre Facelift for Crossbred Wool, Deary Deer - It's a Calf, Persimmons - A quiet achiever for Gisborne growers, Eat your Greens! and the Regional Wrap. Audio
Full Episode for Friday December 7 2018
A Fibre Facelift for Crossbred Wool, Deary Deer - It's a Calf, Persimmons - A quiet achiever for Gisborne growers, Eat your Greens! and the Regional Wrap.
AudioMidday Rural News for 7 December 2018
The discovery of 26 Brown Marmorated Stink Bugs in a shoe box in Oamaru is ringing alarm bells. Audio
Farmer launches petition to save Tip Top ice cream
A petition has been launched to save Kiwi ice-cream brand Tip Top after Fonterra confirmed it was on the market.
MPI unlikely to uncover M bovis 'smoking gun'
The source of the cattle disease Mycoplasma bovis will probably never be found, a Parliamentary Select Committee has been told.
