Rural
Special gene makes heat-resistant cows
A New Zealand company has produced a new breed of dairy cow which can keep producing decent amounts of milk in hot and humid conditions.
Tough as boots
At the recent Rural Games in Palmerston North events including olive-stone spitting and egg throwing and catching, along with speed tree climbing, speed shearing and gumboot throwing. Audio, Gallery
Tough as boots
At the recent Rural Games in Palmerston North events including olive-stone spitting and egg throwing and catching, along with speed tree climbing, speed shearing and gumboot throwing.
AudioGoats give hope
Geoff Copstick, a Northland angora goat farmer, is also chairman of international aid agency ChildFund NZ. He says his rural roots mean he has a lot in common with aid projects involving animals and… Audio
Goats give hope
Geoff Copstick, a Northland angora goat farmer, is also chairman of international aid agency ChildFund NZ. He says his rural roots mean he has a lot in common with aid projects involving animals and…
AudioRegional Wrap
Maize is being harvested in Waikato and the first kiwifruit exports left for China this week. Marlborough farmers are busy setting up rotations around tupping blocks for ewes. In vineyards the bulk of… Audio
Raising the Baa
Robert Gardyne, a sheep farmer from Oturehua in Central Otago, was crowned lamb Producer of the Decade at the recent Beef and Lamb New Zealand Golden Lamb Awards, aka the Glammies. Audio
Raising the Baa
Robert Gardyne, a sheep farmer from Oturehua in Central Otago, was crowned lamb Producer of the Decade at the recent Beef and Lamb New Zealand Golden Lamb Awards, aka the Glammies.
AudioCountry Life full episode for Friday 24 March 2017
Country Life this week's throwing gumboots at the rural games, is sorting blueberries and meets the angora farmer who chairs Child Fund in New Zealand. Audio
Country Life full episode for Friday 24 March 2017
Country Life this week's throwing gumboots at the rural games, is sorting blueberries and meets the angora farmer who chairs Child Fund in New Zealand.
AudioTrauma patients to be sent to best hospital for their injury
A change to the Government's Major Trauma Policy will see trauma patients taken straight to the hospital best able to treat their injury, rather than their closest hospital, which has been the current… Audio
Rabbit virus setback 'bureaucratic nonsense'
Phill Hunt spends about $15,000 a year controlling rabbits on his Queenstown farm. He is angry paper-pushing delayed a much-anticipated rabbit virus by a year.
Quake-hit North Canterbury farmers in need of accomodation
Many farmers' homes have been red-stickered after the Kaikoura earthquake, but they say they can't leave because their farms aren't just their homes, they're their livelihoods Video, Audio
Stoush over rural health school idea
Universities are at loggerheads over how to address the rural doctor shortage.
