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Farming Pāua - the black pearl of the ocean
A Bluff-based operation is farming cocktail-sized pāua using the pristine waters of Foveaux Strait. The New Zealand Abalone Company (TNZAC) is hoping to sell two million of the mini pāua every year.
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Pioneering new food in Southland
It's hoped the newly opened Southern Pioneers' Food Hub will help launch products developed from Southland's food bounty to the world.
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Waitaki River island gets much needed makeover
It's taken years for a team of dedicated Kurow locals to transform an island in the braids of the river from a messy landfill into a recreational and ecological park.
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Full Episode for Friday July 30 2021
Cosmo Kentish-Barnes speaks to a pig farmer known as Lord Havoc about his free range pig farm in South Canterbury and Sally Round finds out how highly-prized Japanese style table grapes are grown in…
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Summer Series - Free-range farmer wants his hogs to be happy
Lord Havoc has a passion for pigs. Ian Jackson runs the Havoc Pork free range piggery in South Canterbury. Sows at the outdoor farm spend their days fossicking for roots, grubs and worms while their…
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Summer Series - Growing for Gold
Budou table grapes can fetch up to $160 a bunch in Japan. Third generation grape grower Tetsuya Higuchi is growing the enormous, sweet, picture-perfect Japanese style grape in Hawke's Bay. The grapes…
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Daniel Eb - founder of Open Farms
Daniel Eb founded Open Farms which aims to connect townies with agriculture by having farmers open up their farms for a day. Daniel's also one of the latest batch of Nuffield scholars - who are part…
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Country Life for 23 July 2021
Hawkes Bay's Clifton Station has plenty going on to keep its owners busy. The Gordon family are working hard to keep the historic farm viable into the 21st century with carbon farming, a new breed of…
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Summer Series - Clifton Station moves into the 21st century
Hawke's Bay's long established Clifton Station made its early fortunes off the sheep's back. But with the crash in wool prices, diversification has been the key to its survival into the 21st century…
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Guest - Stuart Weston, CEO Apata
Our guest this week is Stuart Weston, chief executive of the kiwifruit grower and packhouse operator Apata. The company is on the hunt for land around Whanganui.
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Micro dairy milking it in North Otago
Part-time Oamaru farmers Glen and Bron Claridge milk twenty cows all year round and supply pasteurised milk to locals in glass bottles. They took over The Natural Dairy business last year and have…
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Supporting Shearers
Serena Lyders grew up in shearing sheds - she is now an advocate for support and mental health services to be made available to people working in shearing gangs.
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Full Episode for Friday July 16 2021
The team visit a micro dairy farm near Oamaru in North Otago. Part-time farmers Glen and Bron Claridge milk twenty cows all year round and supply pasteurised milk to locals in glass bottles.
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Plastics designed to degrade on command
16 Jul 2021Scion scientists are introducing enzymes to plastics that will trigger degradation once the plastic's work is done.
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Tomato virus has growers on high alert
The Pepino Mosaic Virus has been identified in indoor grown tomato crops. New Zealand growers may lose some of their international markets because of it.
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Veteran Veterinarian
John Smart has been based at Clutha Vets in Otago since he graduated in 1976.
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Summer Series - A Sip from the South
Rob and Toni Auld have the southern-most farm distillery in the world. They grow oats, wheat and barley and transform them into whisky.
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Full Episode for Friday July 9 2021
Country Life joins Wellington artist Norbert Hausberg who is spending the winter planting natives on a steep hillside in North Otago and takes you to meet a couple putting their own twist on whisky…
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Planting trees a passion for puppeteer
Norbert Hausberg has swapped his marionettes for a modest set of hand tools. The Wellington artist and one time mayoral candidate is spending the winter planting natives on a steep hillside, that was…
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Ag students breed sheep at school farm
Waimate High School teacher Stuart Albrey wants students to develop a passion for farming and it's working. His ag classes are full and a Corriedale sheep stud on the school grounds means hands-on…
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Full Episode for Friday July 2 2021
Country Life chats to a farmer who's researched how farmers around the world deal with pressure. Also on the programme, one of New Zealand's earliest organic growers invites us into his apple cider…
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Thinking under Pressure on the Farm
Nuffield Scholar Corrigan Sowman has explored how the pressure that farmers around the world are experiencing affects their decision-making.
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Fences fixed first as farmers count cost of flooding
Farmers in mid-Canterbury are still trying to get their heads around the scale of damage caused by massive flooding in June. It's been an extremely challenging situation for neighbours Anne-Marie…
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25 years of organics - 'We were all rebels in those days'
Cows and dogs as well as people around south east Asia are taking a daily tipple of Kim Baker's organic apple cider vinegar. He is one of New Zealand's earliest organic growers still producing and…
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