Country Life for Thursday 24 March 2016

9:36 PM.A herd of horned beasts provides milk for Methven cheese makers. Tucked away on an isolated farm near the foothills of the Southern Alps is the only commercial dairy buffalo herd in the South Island… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:27 PM.Teaser Bulls are vasectomised bulls that identify cows that are ready to be mated. Jennie Macky leases the 15 month old bulls to farmers to do what they do best in their herds. She says having a… Read more Audio

9:12 PM.John Forde has a pair of Skellerup Ashley gumboots which should have laces up the front. But instead he has a carefully placed piece of Number 8 wire, "it makes them easy to take on and off." Winners… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:20 PM.Sharemilker Andrew McPherson is drilling seed on his Waikato dairy farm. He re-grasses a portion of the farm each year but is finding more and more land looks like it needs a fresh lot of seed because… Read more Audio

9:05 PM.Taranaki, Manawatu and Horowhenua have had wonderful rain, but facial eczema is rampant and some dairy farmers have had to dry off their whole herd, or at least some cows, early. Even farmers taking… Read more Audio