Country Life for 27 January

Country life meets Billy Barton, who used to compete with ferrets as a past-time in his native Wales. Now he trains them and a pack of white shepherd dogs to hunt out rabbits and feral cats in New Zealand's war against pests. The team is in the holding yard with Oxford farmer and YouTube vlogger Alistair Bird. In this episode, he tells Cosmo what he's been up to in December while marking and weighing a mob of noisy calves. Nick Gill from Greystone Wines gives us an update on how things are progressing in the Waipara Valley vineyard and of course, there's our weekly update, On the Farm - a wrap of farming conditions around NZ.