Country Life for Friday 26 August 2022

9:05 PM.Sheep farmer struggles to control huge hungry hoppers, Sniffing dog stops wallabies hopping south, A dive back in time with poet Mike McGee and On the Farm - a wrap of farming conditions around NZ. Read more Audio

9:07 PM.Lambing percentages are looking positive In King Country with plenty of twins frolicking around the paddocks. In Marlborough some vineyards are still tying and pruning their vines behind schedule due… Read more Audio

9:29 PM.For more than fifty years Whanganui man Mike McGee hunted and tramped in the bush and ranges of the North Island. The love of the outdoors was in his blood and spurred him to write many poems about… Read more Audio

9:39 PM.Best of 2022 - Back in the 1950s, a group of wallabies turned up at Wainui Station... and never left.  Read more Audio

11:17 AM.A cute detection dog called Toby is helping an Otago pest control team track down wily wallabies crossing the Waitaki River.  The  Aussie imports are escaping South Canterbury's Wallaby Containment… Read more Audio