Country Life

The Country Life team hear about the deluge on the West Coast - and how Northland would like some of that water diverted its way. Kiwifruit is flowering. Country Life's with one of the country's biggest herb growers snipping the tips off chives, they're with a woman who has a new love in her life...gypsy cob horses...and a North Canterbury vege grower welcomes thousands of people onto his property to dig potatoes and pick peas for Christmas.

The King Country's John Gray has spent years working with sheep. Now he's combining his skills as a stockman, his trusty dogs and a drone to round up feral goats. Many landowners paying him to clear their goats are now making money from their meat, he says.

The Under FiveHundy series explores rural New Zealand towns with fewer than 500 inhabitants. Doyleston is 20 kilometres south of Lincoln in Canterbury's Selwyn District. Surrounded by farmland and on the road between Leeston and Springston, it's unlikely you'll stop by unless you need fuel or are a local. Community committee chairman, garage owner and postman Jack Pearcy, says there is a lot more to the peaceful township than meets the eye.

Plant and Food Research is using new technologies, including arificial intelligence and sensing technologies, to help detect a damaging virus that secretly takes hold in grape vines.

South Auckland received 50 millimetres or more of rain. It was most welcome but delayed spuds, onion and carrot harvesting. It's been a typical wet and windy October for coastal Southland. It's a battle to get crops in ground.

Jessie Waite works for Federated Farmers.The 26-year-old is one of three winners of the 2018 NZ Young Farmers Excellence Awards recognising members who are leaders, achievers and role models.

The New Buzz on Mustering, Under FiveHundy - Down in Doyleston, Spotting Leaf Roll Virus, NZ Young Farmers Excellence Award and the Regional Wrap.

Kaitahi Native Superfood Company sells a frozen blend of fruit, vegetables, seeds, kūmara, pūhā and kawakawa which you shake with liquid to make an instant smoothie.

Six uni mates in Canterbury were looking for a way to support farmers under stress... so they set up Handy Landys. It's now a fully functioning club at Lincoln University with more than 50 members.

Graeme Clare oversees a bark beetle breeding programme that is crucial to protecting the NZ forestry sector. His team supplies thousands of beetles and eggs for fumigation trials - which aim to reduce methyl bromide use and replace it with an alternative.