Country Life

South Otago farmer Stephen Jack is working on a sheep breeding project that grows meat, but also has finer wool which can be sold for profit. He has developed a 23 to 25 micron dual purpose animal… Read more Audio

The remote, rural Colville community is digging deep trying to fund a new wellbeing and education centre for its 700 strong population. The purpose-built complex would house medical and social… Read more Audio

It's been a marvellous week for harvesting kiwifruit in Bay of Plenty. On Marlborough hill farms calf weaning has finished and ewes are on a fast rotation while the ram is out. Read more Audio

Fruit, Flowers and Fragrances, The Colville Project, Micron Matters and the Regional Wrap. Read more Audio

Mack was the first person to be granted a license to grow industrial hemp (iHemp) in New Zealand and is currently developing eight hemp cultivars on his farm in the Catlins. Read more Audio

These days most regional councils are putting rules in place around what can and can't be done on the land and what level of nutrient run-off is allowable. To make changes and informed choices… Read more Audio

A Waikato farmer and former farming leader Malcolm Lumsden says 50 percent of the dairy farmers in his district want to leave the industry. He says paperwork, a fear of prosecution and a back-lash… Read more Audio

Hawkes' Bays grape harvest is 80 to 90 percent through. Horowhenua's had good grass growth but temperatures have taken a dive. Some rain and cooler temperatures this week in Canterbury have seen… Read more Audio

Chairman of the Tamarillo Growers association, Robert Morris. Read more Audio

High Hopes for Hemp, Sussing out Soils, Confidence Crisis in Dairying, Harvesting Tamarillos and the Regional Wrap. Read more Audio

The tiny northern Hawkes Bay settlement of Nuhaka has chess champions, a large Latter-day Saints congregation and a large apple & kiwifruit orchard that looks like it will need more than 100 seasonal… Read more Audio, Gallery

Santanu Deb-Choudhury and his team at AgResearch have found that proteins from sheep wool fibre can help improve the digestive health of cats. The proteins, extracted from cross-bred wool are then… Read more Audio