Country Life

Old Looms Make Fine Fabric, Ubco Bikes, Tree Lucerne, Stock prices. Read more Audio

Rural Waikato couple Vicky and Ruairi Kelly are stepping up their efforts to live sustainably on less than half a hectare of land. Read more Audio, Gallery

Noel Moleta was brought up on D'Urville Island in the Marlborough Sounds and has been farming sheep on an isolated property at nearby Titirangi Bay for four decades. Read more Audio

What's happening on farms and orchards around New Zealand? Each week Radio New Zealand’s Country Life reporters talk to people in rural areas across the country to find out. Read more Audio

Vet and researcher Winston Mason says many dairy farmers are failing to prevent facial eczema despite taking measures to keep it at bay. Read more Audio

Ruairi Kelly and his wife Vicky have upped their efforts to live as sustainably as possible. They raise pigs and goats for meat and grow all the fruit and vegetables they need on less than half a… Read more Audio

Taranaki is well set up. There's been plenty of rain and lots of silage and hay cut. Milk production is about 7 percent. In Southland there's heaps of baleage being made and everyone's getting the… Read more Audio

Ian Proudfoot has three big picture topics on his mind: the role industry needs to play in addressing the nutrition deficit we have in NZ (how can we think we can be regarded as selling the best food… Read more Audio

Farmers Upbeat while Down Under, The Wright Wine comes from Gisborne, Ian Proudfoot Agribusiness Expert KPMG and the Regional Wrap.

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A decade or so ago Nicola and Geoff Wright started out making wine in a shipping container. They had one small boy. Now they have three vine yards and five young boys. Nicola still works as a criminal… Read more Audio

Rodger Hobson, the UK's largest grower of carrots, was part of a recent whirlwind tour of agricultural production systems around NZ. He says British farmers have much to learn from aspects of New… Read more Audio, Gallery