Sheep

Sustainable farm forestry and agricultural techniques, including the careful management of water resources are central to Peter and Jane Evans' farming operation near Timaru. The Pareora River runs… Audio

Dairy alternatives in New Zealand, such as sheep and goat, are picking up momentum with several new exporters planning to build million dollar factories this year. Audio

Two days after the Auditor General announced she would investigate the Government's controversial Saudi sheep deal, the government agency in charge was told all further spending on the project was… Audio

Lincoln University lecturers Guy and Sue Trafford (above) are setting up a sheep milking operation on their property near Darfield in Canterbury. The milk from their flock of 200 sheep will be used to… Audio

A selection of some of the best Country Life stories from 2015. In this episode: Golden Reflections, Ponds of Gold and Woosters of Orira Audio, Gallery

Young English sheep farmer Sophie Barnes is spending two years visiting and helping out on farms around New Zealand. Currently she is mustering on a farm in Tiraumea… Audio

Jan and Roy Johnstone's small farm in South Otago's Puerua Valley was owned by Jan's uncle before they bought it thirty years ago and they've been planting native and food producing trees there ever… Audio

The cherry harvest has started in Hawkes Bay and all North Island regions are feeling a little better after good rain last weekend. At the top of the South Island, the huge forest fire In Marlborough… Audio

Cosmo Kentish-Barnes is at the Canterbury A&P Show where he discovers duck herding, visits a sheep maternity ward, wanders through "Camp Gallipoli" and finds out about the Canterbury excavator… Audio, Gallery

Bulls are finally putting on weight in Manawatu after a long, miserable winter and in the south Marlborough farmers are getting ready for a dry summer. [{topics] rural, farming Audio

When Bruce and Denise McGill began farming organically 30 years ago they found that stock were just as healthy and production levels could be maintained, but they quickly learnt that the organic… Audio

South Otago sheep farmer Ross Agnew, known for his protest song Fart Tax Blues, has published a collection of his poetry in a new book called Farmyard Blues. Audio

Seventeen-year old Louisa McClintock has left school so she can learn about farming from her grandfather Graham McClintock on his sheep and beef farm near Cheviot. Audio

Two generations of the Craw family farm together on a collection of seven blocks of coastal hill country on the north eastern reaches of Banks Peninsula. Their passion and farming expertise has been… Audio

Professor of Neurobiology at the University of Cambridge, and Professorial Fellow and Director of Studies in Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, at Newnham College, who has returned to New Zealand as… Audio