Country Life

Teenagers on the farm, Scandinavian horses, how the US China trade war's affecting NZ wool prices and the Regional Wrap. Read more Audio

Every day, agriculture tutor Joe Steventon heads out to high schools around the lower North Island. He round up kids and take them out to the countryside to find out what's involved in working the… Read more Audio, Gallery

Nineteen-year-old Jasmine Hubber has rescued nearly 200 cows and calves from a one-way trip to the meatworks with her not-for-profit cow sanctuary 'Til the Cows Come Home. Read more Audio

The small King Country town of Otorohanga has a sparkling new medical facility. Nearly every cent needed for the $3.4 million building was raised by the community. Read more Audio, Gallery

John Douglas runs the tiny Te Hera vineyard on Te Muna Road just out of Martinborough in South Wairarapa. Pruning is coming to an end and it's been a long hard slog for the former psychiatric nurse… Read more Audio

Bay of Plenty kiwifruit growers are finishing off winter pruning and having the end of season tidy up. With good weather across Canterbury and winter feed crops mostly finished, tractors have been… Read more Audio

A cow sanctuary at Cust, pruning vines in Wairarapa, Otorohanga new medical centre and the Regional Wrap. Read more Audio

Jason Prior is a beekeeper who produces up to 60 tonnes of honey a year, has a nursery that sells trees bees love and is about to plant 1000 cider apple trees. Read more Audio, Gallery

Roscoe Taggart is a third generation farmer at Cust in North Canterbury. He took over the running of the family farm five years ago. The 28-year-old is phasing out the sheep breeding component of the… Read more Audio

It's 10 years since Lindy Nelson set out on a path which led to the Agri-Women's Development Trust, which has helped hundreds of women - and men now too - make change in New Zealand's primary sector… Read more Audio

Vegetable crops are on a bit of a go-slow in the Pukekohe district because it's been so wet and in Southland farmers are doing the rounds to check for cast ewes... Read more Audio

Mark Bocock rears 4500 calves a year at his property near Te Awamutu in Waikato. At this time of year he's working 12 hours a day, making 140 farm visits a week to pick up calves. Read more Audio