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Farms flooded in Canadian province
The Canadian Province of British Columbia has been inundated with floodwaters - 18,000 people have been stranded, roads, houses and bridges have been destroyed and farms are awash. Country Life speaks…
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Country Life for Friday 19 November
Full Episode for Friday November 19 2021.
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No rest for the wicked at Lees Valley Station
The new farm manager at one of New Zealand's biggest sheep and beef properties in North Canterbury has hit the ground running. As well as getting up to speed with a holistic grazing system established…
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Testing the Waters
A group of farmers near Palmerston North are taking the lab into the paddock and learning to understand and measure what's running off their land into streams and creeks and eventually the Manawatu…
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Country Life Friday November 12 2021
Building bridges and fencing farms in an out-of-the-way valley, cleaning milking sheds made easier with clear water, testing Manawatu water and the Regional Wrap.
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Cleaning milking sheds made easier with clear water
Lincoln University soil scientists have developed a new method to treat farm dairy effluent to produce clarified water for recycling and to reduce the environmental risks from the land application of…
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A good day's work - fencing in out-of-the-way valley
Fencing contactor James Ewing has two years of work ahead of him at Lees Valley Station in North Canterbury. He was erecting a deer fence along the valley road when Cosmo Kentish-Barnes stopped for a…
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Farm Talk - Conversations with farmers around the world
Benthem Farms in northern Michigan farms 2500 cows. They're milked three times a day and housed year round. In winter temperatures can drop to -28 degrees C.
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Making farming work - one couple's journey to farm ownership
Gaynor and Colm Tierney bought their dairy farm nine years ago. They didn't start farming it themselves until last season.
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Healthy earth makes vegan farmer happy
Sharing produce and growing know-how is rooted in Vanya Maw's philosophy. She's been running Wyenova Organics since 1992 and farms just about anything edible that grows with passion and pride.
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Country Life for 5 November 2021
On Country Life, a wrap of farming conditions around NZ; Farm talk with Benthem Farms in Michigan and Vanya Maw has been running Wyenova Organics since 1992 and farms just about anything edible that…
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Country Life for 29 October 2021
Country Life visits a sheep and beef farm near Culverden that has it's own brand of fine merino blankets and yarns, a Western AustralaTasman dairy farmer talks about the challenges he's facing, the…
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Entrepreneurial farmers use own wool to make blankets and yarns
Angus cattle and merino sheep share the rolling hills on a scenic farm near Culverden. Third generation farmer Jono Reed was only 14 when he started breeding cattle at the property. His wife, Sarah…
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Foothills history the focal point for rural museum
The tiny Staveley Museum displays a photographic collection that tells the story of the foothills area of Mid-Canterbury including timber milling, coal mining, limestone quarrying, farming and family…
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Farm Talk - conversations with farmers around the world
A western Australian farming leader says supermarkets have taken control of the fresh milk price and dairy farmers in his state are only just breaking even.
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Beef and Lamb's Greenhouse Gas Calculator
Farmers will need to know how much greenhouse gas their farms are producing by the end of next year. There are at least ten tools at the moment they can use including Beef and Lamb's GhG Calculator…
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Healing the Land
A gully at the base of Mt Taranaki surrounded by dairy farms has been transformed into a food forest nourished by home waste. The family who live here save energy and water by farming on terraces and…
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Machinery-mad farmer wants future generations to value the past
Anthony Hampton has an impressive collection of Massey farm machinery and vintage tractors. Next year his farm is hosting the Wheat and Wheels Rally that is timed to celebrate the 175th anniversary of…
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Country Life for 22 October
Full Episode for Friday October 22 2021.
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Entrepreneurship scheme for Ni-Vanuatu seasonal workers a Pacific first
A new programme has been launched to help with the economic reintergration of seasonal workers returning to Vanuatu. People who have been working on orchards, vineyards and in packhouses in Australia…
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Country Life Friday October 15 2021
Country Life visits a dairy farm which is helping to test methods which might lower the environmental footprint of dairying and meets an entrepreneur who's taken New Zealand wool socks to the world.
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Farming for the Future
It's hoped a dairy farm trial in Taranaki can provide some answers for dairy farmers needing to lower their environmental footprint. Country Life visits the Gibson Farm near Hawera to check out some…
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Don't let the bed bugs bite...
Heiko Kaiser has a pest control business for all sorts of pests, urban and rural, but his interest in pests started when bed bugs were found in a resort he was running.
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Small feet stay warm thanks to Amuri Basin entrepreneur
Tracey Topp started making merino socks for children sixteen years ago. It all began when she struggled to find woollen socks for her two boys. Now her Cosy Toes brand has expanded to adult socks as…
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