Country Life for Friday 29 September 2023

7:07 PM.Despite a dry period in Pukekohe in the middle of the month, warmer temperatures and residual soil moisture has stimulated crop growth. Most farmers are through calving on the West Coast and are busy… Read more Audio

7:07 PM.This week on Country Life; Since the late sixties, Barkers of Geraldine has been filling Kiwi pantries with jams, syrups and sauces, and since linking up with a French jam maker the rural business… Read more Audio

7:14 PM.Ruawai kumara grower Warwick Simpson hopes seed contingency schemes will bring hope to the paddocks. Read more Audio

7:19 PM.Veteran New Zealand actor Sir Sam Neill takes Country Life on a tour of his Central Otago vineyard just before the 2023 season got underway. Read more Audio

11:37 AM.The fruit preserving business was founded in the late sixties by Anthony and Gillian Barker as a way of supplementing their farm income. Now it employs over 250 people and produces about 800 finished… Read more Audio