Country Life

We head to a woolshed where hundreds of sheep are being shorn for charity and find out how the Tora Coastal Walk has helped a rugged sheep and beef farm weather tough times.

It's 30 years since the Elworthy family began the Tora Coastal Walk, one of the first multi-day hikes on farmland in NZ. It's been the key to this marginal farm's survival.

Dozens of shearers slipped on their moccasins for the Shear For Life charity shearing event at Hinds, raising $150,000 for local charitable groups.

The team at Waka Dairies near Dannevirke is turning waste from milking cows into fertiliser that can be worked back into the farm.

A round-up of the week's news from the primary sector.

Meet farmers Joyce and Jock Wyllie, who first met when she was a locum vet visiting his isolated farm in Golden Bay. We also check back in to see what progress Miley the Huntaway is making and talk to Federated Farmers president Wayne Langford.

Joyce and Jock Wyllie first met when she was a locum vet visiting his isolated farm in Golden Bay.

We catch up with Miley the young Huntaway and her trainer Chris Shaw as she celebrates her first birthday. You'll be blown away by how much progress she's made.

How do New Zealand's farming leaders juggle the farm with the many other hats they may wear in the public arena? We go behind the scenes and catch up with Wayne Langford.

A round-up of conditions on farms and orchards around the country.

The best of Country Life including a microgreens farm in Te Puke, potato growing in Otago and goat milking near Wellington

The best of Country Life including a programme to help empower the next generation of wāhine in agriculture, a small farming community in Canterbury who love ice skating and a Clydesdales stud returns to the foothills of Taranaki Mounga.

The best of Country Life including Rural Riders in Taranaki, Appleby Farms near Nelson, and a young Huntaway pup named Miley in Wairarapa.

The best of Country Life including Mount Taranaki ranger Tāne Houston, a traditional Māori healer is working with shearers all around the motu and an Otago sheep farmer crafts coats from her Romdale hogget wool.