Country Life

As well as selling top quality wool to buyers around the world, Polly and Ross McGuckin's Yaldhurst Wools business also provides funeral homes with biodegradable caskets and ash urns made from New Zealand wool.

You can find photos and read more about this episode on our webpage, here.

You can learn more about Exquisite Wools, here.

With thanks to:

• Polly and Ross McGuckin

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Informing, entertaining and connecting isolated farmers was a prime goal of the Radio Broadcasting Company, officially incorporated in August 1925 and a forerunner to RNZ. As RNZ celebrates the centenary, Country Life dips back into the archives to bring you some of the well-loved voices and shows from the rural team over the decades.

You can find photos and read more about this episode on our webpage, here.

With thanks to:

• Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision

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Wairarapa dog triallist Chris Shaw breaks down the difference between heading dogs and Huntaway, like young pup Miley, and what they each do on farm.

You can find photos and read more about this episode on our webpage, here.

You can also find more about Rural Edge Contracting and Dog Training, here.

You can catch more of Chris and Miley, including the first time we met them, here.

With thanks to:

• Chris Shaw

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A round-up of the week's news from the primary sector.

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Former South-Taranaki mayor Ross Dunlop has led the way with conservation efforts on his family farm.

You can find photos and read more about this episode on our webpage, here.

With thanks to:

• Ross Dunlop

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This week Country Life heads to the saleyards in Canterbury, meets a Taranaki woman weaving locally-grown wool into blankets and finds out what it's like to be a rural midwife working in a very remote part of the Coromandel Peninsula.

You can find photos and read more about the stories in this episode on our webpage, here.

In this episode:

• 0:40 - Rural News Wrap
• 6:02 - Lambs are flying out of the pens at the Canterbury Saleyards
• 14:18 - Where there's wool there's a way
• 27:01 - A day in the life of a rural midwife

With thanks to guests:

• Tim Kyle, Grant Nordstrom, and Brent McCauley
• Alison Ross, The Taranaki Blanket
• Sheryl Wright

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Rural midwife Sheryl Wright drives a winding dangerous road and even fords rivers to get to pregnant and new mothers in northwest Coromandel.

You can find photos and read more about this episode on our webpage, here.

In this episode:

• 0:08 - A day in the life of Sheryl Wright
• 3:00 - The only midwife in remote Coromandel
• 5:58 - At the Thames birthing clinic
• 8:50 - Home visits and home births
• 17:43 - Not just a holiday destination but home

With thanks to:

• Sheryl Wright

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Taranaki weaver Alison Ross is trying to bring back woollen-blankets made from locally-grown wool to highlight the fibre's benefits.

You can find photos and read more about this episode on our webpage, here.

You can learn more about The Taranaki Blanket here.

With thanks to:

• Alison Ross

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Many Waitaha farmers are moving away from the traditional system of running ewes and finishing their own lambs. Now they're in the market to buy in and finish other's lambs.

You can find photos and read more about this episode on our webpage, here.

With thanks to guests:

• Tim Kyle, Grant Nordstrom, and Brent McCauley

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A round-up of the week's news from the primary sector.

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