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Country Life
Country Life takes you down country roads to meet ordinary people achieving their dreams. We live in a beautiful country and we'd love to show it. Have you got a great photo? Drop us an email below.
Friday 7pm and Saturday 7am
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Latest audio
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Full Episode for Friday April 27, 2018
The rigours of shearing, Niki Guy Junker and her meal service and the labour shortage in our apple and Kiwfruit industries. Read more Audio
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The Return of the Rabbits
Rabbit numbers have exploded in Otago in the past year and Shaun Moloney is contracted to help farmers and grape growers get rid of them. Read more Audio
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Farmers of the future
Hundreds of children around the country are competing in the AgriKids regional finals this month. The competition aims to promote the fun side of farming and help children develop practical skills. Read more Audio, Gallery
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Kill That Rabbit
Stephen Dickson's frank business name says it all. The Central Otago man employs dogs, ferrets and guns to combat the region's exploding rabbit population. Read more Audio
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Apple Angst
Simon Easton has a 60-hectare apple orchard in the Tasman region. He says every year it gets harder to find fruit pickers, but this year takes the cake. Read more Audio
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Regional Wrap
The apple harvest is coming to an end in Hawke’s Bay and almost all the grapes are in. Early signs of winter appeared last weekend in Canterbury with a couple of light frosts. Farmers have been busy… Read more Audio
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Full Episode for Friday April 20, 2018
Apple Angst, Stephen Dickson and his ferret Crank, The Return of the Rabbits, Future Farmers and the Regional Wrap. Read more Audio
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Wheel of Fortune
Malcolm Smith and Robyn Curtis-Smith have transformed an abandoned West Coast gold mining valley into fertile farmland for their cattle. They've also built a house and a huge waterwheel that generates… Read more Audio, Gallery
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The Southern Weather Man
The Central Otago settlement of Ophir has the dubious honour of being the coldest place in the country. Sam Leask should know. Every day the sheep farmer ducks out to record the temperature, then… Read more Audio
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Squeaky Clean?
Dr Clive Dalton, a retired animal scientist, says New Zealand needs to seriously look at many farming and recreational practises that we see as "normal" and question how they'd look to overseas… Read more Audio
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Regional Wrap
Farmers across the country have been reaching for their winter woolies this week. The apple harvest in Hawkes Bay has only a couple of weeks to run. Weaning is underway in Marlborough. One farmer says… Read more Audio
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Full Episode for Friday April 13, 2018
Wheel of Fortune, A Cool Farm, Squeaky Clean? and the Regional Wrap. Read more Audio
Country Life
Country Life takes you down country roads to meet ordinary people achieving their dreams. We live in a beautiful country and we'd love to show it. Have you got a great photo? Drop us an email below.
Produced by: Sally Round, Cosmo Kentish-Barnes and Gianina Schwanecke.
Friday 7pm and Saturday 7am
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