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Making wool great again
A West Otago couple were so sick of seeing so much synthetic clothing around they decided to do something about it. Waitahuna West sheep and beef farmers Murray and Julie Hellewell are making jerseys…
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Smooth Avocados
13 Nov 2020Imagine a perfect avocado every time...Gisborne's David and Judi Grey have developed new varieties they say produce just that.
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A grand old country dame
The homestead at Merchiston Station in Rangitikei has fireplaces galore and an exquisite staircase carved by Ngāti Hauiti craftsmen. Little has changed since it was built in the early 1900s. But what…
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Full Episode for Friday November 6 2020
Country Life this week visits a cropping farmer at Sheffield in Canterbury who is milling his own wheat and selling the flour to bakers around the country and heads off for a day out with a pack of…
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Farmer fuelled by flour power
A cropping farmer at Sheffield in Canterbury is milling his own wheat and selling the flour to bakers around the country. Marty Scurr imported a stone mill from Austria last year and installed it in…
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The 90s File - Heather Gee-Taylor
Twenty-three year old Heather Gee-Taylor is one of New Zealand's youngest local body politicians and a charolais cattle breeder to boot.
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A Dog's Day Out
Former SPCA welfare officer Bernice David-Goodwin runs a doggie day-care with a difference. She takes Gisborne dogs on excursions - sometimes 23 at a time!
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A toast to Gisborne Wine
30 Oct 2020The former chair of Gisborne Wine, Annie Millton is hoping New Zealanders will visit the region to experiece the seclusion, its beaches and its fine wines.
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From the cockpit to the tractor cab
Former pilots, cafe workers and ex sales people are just some of those looking at a career in agriculture after Covid-19 disrupted their lives. Country Life spent a day with the budding beekeepers…
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Full Episode for Friday October 30 2020
Gisbonre Wine, Andy Geissmann from Waikato Milking Systems, Robotics Plus, jobseekers get a taste of farming life at Taratahi and the Regional Wrap
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Rapidly expanding Robotics Plus
Robotics Plus makes robots for the primary sector. It started ten years ago looking at a fully automated kiwifruit harvester. It is now working on an all terrain self driving vehicle for Yamaha…
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Milking Magic
A Waikato milking machine firm is selling an increasing number of parlours for sheep and goat milking both in NZ and off shore.
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Country Life for 23 October 2020
Full Episode for Friday October 23, 2020.
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The 90s File - Sam Tietjen
Sam Tietjen trained in mechanical engineering but has come back to the family orchard and is now overseeing the planting of 2000 avocado trees.
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Making Sawdust in Gisborne
23 Oct 2020For 31 years John Larsen has been milling timber on the outskirts of Gisborne. As the returns from milling have dwindled, John has diversified and now manufactures gates, dunnies, dog kennels and meat…
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Farmers find niche in wool carding
A farm based wool carding business in Central Otago sends fibre ready for spinning to customers as far afield as Russia. Barb and Stuart Peel's carding machine was built in England in 1951 and was…
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Don't Fence Me In
Three farms are now using start-up company Halter's cow collars that use sound and vibration to guide cows around the farm and to keep them contained, without the use of fences.
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Full Episode for Friday 16 October 2020
Carol Stiles pops in to a pilot farm in Waikato where cows are wearing high tech collars which keep them behind virtual fences and Cosmo KentishBarnes is in Otago with a second generation pig farmer…
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Protection from PSA
Plant and Food Research has developed an environmentally-friendly spray to help fend off the kiwifruit vine killing disease PSA.
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A Piggery on the Peninsula
Pieter Bloem is a second generation Otago pig farmer. The family farm, overlooking Dunedin on one side and the ocean on the other, was bought by his parents in 1954. They were intending to milk cows…
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Country Life for 9 October 2020
Country Life this week follows a cow podiatrist tending his patients' feet. It can be a mucky job but enormously satisfying! And Dr John Hellstrom talks about how the Marlborough Sounds is fighting…
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On a mission to destroy wilding pines
9 Oct 2020Dr John Hellstrom is at the helm of a group leading the way in New Zealand in the battle against wilding pines which are being blamed for creating tinder box conditions in parts of the country. The…
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From Malaita to Mid-Canterbury
9 Oct 2020When Paul Awaikera graduated from Lincoln University he decided not to go back to the Solomon Islands as his degree focused on temperate agriculture. Back home because it's tropical, he says it…
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Feet First
9 Oct 2020Johan Buys spends his days tending cows' feet. It can be a mucky job but he says it's enormously satisfying watching a cow that was lame stroll painlessly back to the paddock.
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