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Country Life for Friday 31 October 2008

  • Intro and Guest

    9:05 PM.Joan Baker has written a book to help with succession planning - Your Last Fencepost, Retirement Planning for NZ Farmers. Audio

  • Regional Conditions

    9:13 PM.In the North Island temperatures are cooler than usual and windy and in the south tailing ends and cow mating gets underway. Audio

  • Ruakura's Transgenic Farm

    9:20 PM.Dr Jimmie Suttie, Tim Hale and Dr Vish Vishwanath on AgResearch's transgenic cows and where GM technology may go in the future. Audio

  • Good as Gold

    9:31 PM.Evan and Jane Birchfield run a successful open cast gold mining business in Ross, a small town near Hokitika on the West Coast. Audio

(Below) West Coast goldminer Evan Birchfield on top of his 1971 Chieftain tank. Beside it is his 1953 Centurion tank used by Australian forces in the Vietnam War.

Evan Birchfield