Country Life

In Hawkes Bay a lamb finisher currently has 27,000 labms on his farm, about 5,000 more than last year, because there's so much feed.

Nine hundred East Coast farmers are being surveyed to get a real understanding of how much damage was caused by a storm in late March.

Country Life this week is having a yarn about Polwarth sheep and joins the audience at a country hall in Hawke's Bay which is among several in the district playing host to live music by top musicians.

Each week in Northland, people with excess garden produce meet to give it away to others. The crop swap meetings are about living sustainably, building resilience and strengthening communities.

Environmental and social trials are underway on a dairy farm near Ashburton. Rhys and Kiri Roberts are comparing conventional farming with a regenerative system, they're giving staff more work flexibility and are providing them with free farm-grown food.

It's been another great week in Canterbury with weather as good as you could expect for the time of year. Conditions are excellent for newly establishing seed and grain crops.

Sunny Singh is a kiwifruit contractor based in Waikato. It's a job he loves and says it's earning him a good income. But success hasn't come without a lot of hard work. After arriving in New Zealand in 2008 he spent a number of years as a kiwifruit labourer during the day, learning the ropes, and at night he worked for Pizza Hut. By 2018, along with sending money home to his family, he'd saved enough to buy a house, and he's aiming to be mortgage free within the next couple of years.

Market garden on farm provides staff with healthy vege boxes, Swapping crops and building communities, Success comes from hard work and on the Farm - a wrap of farming conditions around NZ.

Rob Schulter grows coffee in Doubtless Bay in the Far North. He's just sold two thousand coffee tree seedlings to locals in the hopes they'll add to Northland's commercial coffee production.

Kees Huizinga is back at his cropping and dairy farm in Ukraine, trying to plant spring crops as war rages in many parts of the country. His 15,000 hectare farm, about 200 kilometres south of Kyiv, has been spared the Russian invasion, but Kees still faces many challenges.