Country Life for Friday 2 April 2010

9:05 PM.It's still desperately dry in Northland and pretty dry in other North Island areas while in the South Island rams are out and milk production's slowing. Audio

9:12 PM.David Gordon is just 13 and is the youngest person to have won the novice competition at the Golden Shears. Audio

9:18 PM.William the ram has met up with most of the ewes and stirred a childhood memory for Susan Murray. Audio

9:20 PM.An 8-part series set Murchison in the 1930's about rural life seen through the eyes of a farmer's daughter. Part 4 recounts the day of the 1929 Murchison earthquake from a child's perspective. Based… Read more Audio

9:22 PM.The Waituhi Kuratau Maori trust has just completed its first full season milking 1600 ewes once a day through a 80 bale rotary shed. The trust owns its own processing factory and hopes to persuade… Read more Audio

9:22 PM.The Chatham Island's newly appointed Mayor Alfred Preece, takes Cosmo to the top of his farm in Owenga to see platforms for the huge wind turbines that are being constructed (in France) to ease the… Read more Audio