Rural
Polo school programme aims to shed elitist image
Teens from Flaxmere College are saddling up ponies and swinging mallets, learning to play the sport of polo. Video, Audio
Rural News Wrap
RNZ's rural news reporter, Sally Murphy, takes a look at the week's agricultural news. Audio
Country Life Friday April 28, 2023
Country Life is at Greystone Wines in Waipara, finds out how humanure is helping a Taranaki family's sustainability journey and chats to a polo club owner who wants to shed the game's elitist image. Audio
Farmer sentenced after hundreds of calves starved to death
A 'small number' of dead calves turned out to be more than 600.
Trial vineyard has 4000 plants grown in lab
Scientists are researching how "jumping genes" can be used to develop more robust pinot noir grapes that still have an iconic New Zealand flavour. Dr Ross Bicknell and Dr Philippa Barrell from Plant… Audio
'A really critical place right now': Frustrated growers seek answers on cyclone recovery
The growers are seeking $750 million from the government to help them in three priority areas, with decisions needing to be made "yesterday".
Off grid and farming carbon
Former Wellington mayor Celia Wade-Brown lives in a tiny off-grid house and regenerates native forest on a former sheep and beef farm on the flanks of the Tararua mountain range. The carbon… Audio
Tractor with the X-Factor
It's 100 years since the distinctive all purpose Farmall tractor was introduced on a Texas farm aimed at replacing horses between the rows and reducing the need for a hired hand on small family farms… Audio
A pinnacle reached for pine nut producer
Marlborough's Pinoli Premium Pine Nuts was crowned supreme champion at this year's Outstanding New Zealand Food Producer Awards. Co-founder Lee Paterson speaks to Susan Murray. Audio
Rural News Wrap
RNZ's rural news reporter, Sally Murphy, takes a look at the week's agricultural news. Audio
Country Life for Friday April 24 2023
Off-grid and farming carbon, scientists develop new variants of Pinot Noir grapes, a tractor with the X-Factor, pinnacle reached for pine nut producer and the wrap of ag news. Audio
Helping hand for rural mental health
This time of year on the farm is about getting ready for winter, finishing lamb sales, putting rams out with ewes, managing fly strike. But the sector is doing the hard yards to recoup after recent… Audio
Rural support south helping farmers in the North
The Wanaka A&P Show has donated 30 thousand to help rural communities the North Island recover from Cyclone Gabrielle. Audio
Apple of their eyes: Fruits of labour help cyclone recovery
Apple crop harvesting has begun in Wairoa with the first fruits set to go towards the community pātaka to help support whānau after the town was decimated by Cyclone Gabrielle.