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Best of 2022 - With crossbred wool prices remaining low, Canterbury sheep farmers Jane and Mark Schwass are producing exercise mats with their wool clip. Audio

This year the whitebaiting season for most of New Zealand has been cut short by six weeks to help boost declining fish numbers. Country Life spent a morning keeping up tradition with some long-time… Audio

New Zealand start-up, Daisy Lab, is making milk protein from microbes through precision fermentation, a technology which has the potential to be a major disruptor of NZ's multi-billion dollar dairy… Audio

A southerly cruised through the Bay of Plenty making it miserably cold for staff continuing to prune kiwifruit. Bud burst has started in Marlborough vineyards. Some growers have been fighting frosts… Audio

Country Life is out whitebaiting on the first day of the season and chats with the co-founder of a NZ start-up developing a process which could disrupt the dairy industry and Cosmo Kentish-Barnes… Audio

New technology has been developed to automate some of the most critical tasks of the day on a dairy farm. Craig Piggott talks to Jesse about the technology they've developed and the nationwide roll… Audio

A Bay of Plenty company has been sentenced for its role in sending a dense cloud of lime dust across a motorway, that resulted in a deadly multi-vehicle crash.

The company was spreading lime at a… Audio

New research shows that the New Zealand agriculture sector is still ahead other countries in using new technology. But there's also room for the sector be more proactive as the world reaches a… Audio

Last Friday a North Canterbury farmer woke up to find that 500 of her precious lambs had been stolen. Federated Farmers board member and rural policing spokesperson Richard MacIntyre talks to Jesse. Audio

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