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A year on the farm: 'The young bull's semen is not that active'
In this episode Alistair and Genna have empty heifers to deal with after their new bull delivers low pregnancy rates.
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Aladdin's cave of country music memorabilia
There's no room left in Barry Skinner's music museum in Hector. "I've run out of wall space so I'm hanging off the roof now," says the dobro and lap-steel playing collector.
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Country Life for 18 August 2023
18 Aug 2023A Year on the Farm with Alistair and Genna Bird, farmer efforts to restore the Waihi estuary and a visit to a small country music museum in Hector on the West Coast.
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Maramataka another layer of diversity to a Bay of Plenty farm
Mohi Beckham is helping to turn a tired and depleted land into a fertile and productive farm. But the benefits extend to more than just the land.
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Supreme bacon brings home supreme prize for Hawke's Bay butcher
11 Aug 2023Wild Game owners Jordan and Varnnah Hamilton-Bicknell were named Supreme Winner in both the bacon and the ham categories of the 100% New Zealand Bacon & Ham Awards.
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Lambing's taking off on end of runway farm
10 Aug 2023The paddocks on James Thompson's city limits sheep farm are starting to look like the arrivals lounge at Christchurch Airport during the school holidays.
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Country Life for 11 August 2023
This week Country Life is in the bush picking kawakawa destined for artisan gin, a Bay of Plenty farmer recounts his story improving the land and his own mental health and - with the lambing season…
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Gin distillery fizzes with plans for home-grown juniper
Kapiti distillers harvest kawakawa from their historic Wairarapa farm to make award-winning gin. They're also trialling growing juniper berries and planting more natives. Novel pest traps, a bottle…
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Half price natives - and planted for free
4 Aug 2023Landowners in Karamea aren't beating around the bush when it comes to riparian planting. They're making the most of a local not-for-profit nursery and planting service that grows and eco-sources…
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Country Life for Friday August 4 2023
Kauri Forno, Jen Chrisp, Clean Stream Nursery, Japanese farmer and conditions wrap.
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A conversation in the cookhouse
6 Aug 2023Country Life talks to Jen Chrisp who cooks for the shepherds at Puketoro Station. She's carrying on the cookhouse tradition of New Zealand's extensive and remote back country farms.
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A tree for every woman
4 Aug 2023Kauri Forno runs a tree nursery in Gisborne which has been donating trees around Te Tai Rāwhiti for the past three decades. The Women's Native Tree Project Trust started with the aim of planting a…
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On the Farm - a wrap of conditions on farms around the Country
A lot of lambs hit the ground during the recent cold snap and losses are a growing concern in Te Tai Tarawhiti while in Otago there's more feed sitting around than usual so farmers are set up pretty…
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How one woman's 'childhood dream' led her to a Kiwi dairy farm
5 Aug 2023Chihiro Hanyuda moved to New Zealand seven years ago...now she is an award winning dairy farmer.
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Pig hunting escapades of a woman in pink
28 Jul 2023Kim Swan, joins Country Life this week for a chat about her latest book and what it takes to be a woman on tough terrain.
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Wild goats in hunters' sights in crack down on destructive population
28 Jul 2023Two organisations have teamed up to encourage hunters to cull high-density goat populations across the country with prizes up for grabs.
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"Bring the cash in a suitcase and the farm's yours!"
Karamea dairy farmer Peter Langford says he and his wife Debbie are ready to hang up their gumboots. With none of their four children keen on taking over the farm, it's now up for sale - lock, stock…
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Country Life for 28 July 2023
This week Country Life meets a couple who are still inspired by the rugged beauty of Tairāwhiti to produce honey and art from their bees despite having lost many of their hives to Cyclone Gabrielle…
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Crafting honey and art from bees
Cate and Mike King of Pauariki Honey lost a quarter of their hives after Cyclone Gabrielle hit Tairāwhiti in February. They also faced a poor season of manuka flowering. But the raw beauty of the…
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Country Life for 21 July 2023
This week Country Life meets the O'Malleys who have realised their dream of farm ownership after saving for ten years. Also, ag training without a classroom and a forester making the most of his 30…
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Hard work makes dreams come true
Christopher and Siobhan O'Malley stand in a paddock with smiles that could melt one of the nearby West Coast glaciers. The couple have finally achieved their long-term goal of farm ownership and now…
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The Whanganui forest which never stopped growing opportunity
Richard Thompson planted Papaiti forest with alternative species 30 years ago. He never dreamt at the time he would become a timber merchant with a joinery workshop and retail shed.
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Agricademy - reinventing agricultural training in NZ
21 Jul 2023Agricademy doesn't have classrooms or a campus, instead students can dip in and out of on-line videos, filmed with experts in the dairy or wool shed.
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Ngā kura huna - on a path to hidden treasure at Opepe
13 Jul 2023Push your way through a tangle of bush only kilometres from the Napier-Taupō highway and you are on an ancient pa site. Tangata whenua sheltered here hundreds of years ago but this site is known to…
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