Country Life for Friday 6 October 2017

9:01 PM.Chris Thorn has combined his love of hunting and curing wild meats into a business that produces venison salami from locally shot deer; unpicking the DNA of pine trees with Scion and biological… Read more Audio

9:07 PM.The New Zealand Young Farmers organisation has been gifted a 74 hectare dairy farm (by the late Donald Pearson) on the outskirts of Auckland. The aim is to use the property as a demonstration farm for… Read more Audio

9:10 PM.Docking has continued in King Country this week between the showers and despite muddy tracks and puddles in gateways. Wairarapa is looking lush, The planting of fodder beet and barley crops is… Read more Audio

9:15 PM.Chris Thorn turned his passion for hunting and curing wild meats into a business that produces venison salami from locally shot deer. He and his wife Sally's Gathered Game salami sells in in specialty… Read more Audio

9:27 PM.Precision-bred trees will be central to our economy as wood-based products replace plastic and glass fibre in laptop cases, car interiors and even aeroplanes, a molecular geneticist says. Read more Audio

9:46 PM.The cornerstone of soil consultant Rob Flynn's philosophy is that agriculture is a biological system, not a chemical system. One of his clients is North Canterbury farmer Russell Rudd, who has been… Read more Audio