Country Life

A wrap of conditions on farms and orchards around New Zealand

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This week Country Life is on farms looking for meteorites, and newborn calves, visits a herd home for cows and takes you into the world of a station cook preparing "smoko".

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

In this episode:

• 0:56 - Rural News Wrap
• 7:45 - What’s for Smoko?
• 14:38 - From the Archives: It's calving time
• 26:57 - Herd home: How a Taranaki dairy farm lifted its milk solids by 30,000 kilograms
• 36:58 - Great balls of fire, tiny rocks and a very big paddock

With thanks to:

• Philippa Cameron, Claire Concannon
• Paul Kuriger, Crystal Rivers
• Steve Wyn-Harris, John Murray, Chris Garland

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Searching for a bit of space debris in a farm paddock is like looking for a needle in a haystack, except you're not quite sure where the haystack is. Country Life joins in the hunt for fragments of the fireball which shot over the lower North Island in late July.

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With thanks to:

• Steve Wyn-Harris, John Murray, Chris Garland

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Spending an extra half a million dollars building a herd home for his cows means Paul Kuriger can milk for an extra month while helping protect the many waterways on his farm, Crystal Rivers.

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With thanks to:

• Paul Kuriger, Crystal Rivers

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Back in 2021 producer Sally Round got up before the birds to meet Carterton dairy farmer Jodie James and his team to find out what happens over calving.

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Our Changing World's Claire Concannon talks to station cook Philippa Cameron.

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With thanks to:

• Philippa Cameron
• Claire Concannon

Tune in to Our Changing World to find out what Claire was in Duntroon for.

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A wrap of the week's news from RNZ's rural news team.

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Country Life visits a centre helping injured birds of prey return to the wild and an insect farm breeding beneficial bugs.

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

In this episode:

• 1:01 - Rural news wrap
• 8:29- Instagram-able rural scene causing headache for locals
• 13:49 - A force to be reckoned with
• 28:17 - Raptor rescues in Timaru

With thanks to:

• Amanda Jordan
• Chris and John Thompson, Bioforce
• Ron Lindsay, Jenni Fraser and Angie Tidy, New Zealand Raptor Trust

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The NZ Raptor Trust has spent the last decade helping birds of prey recover from road accidents and return to the wild.

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With thanks to:

• Ron Lindsay, Jenni Fraser and Angie Tidy, New Zealand Raptor Trust

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Bioforce grows beneficial insects, sending them around the country to gardeners and orchardists, providing a fighting force to beat back pests in tunnel houses and greenhouses, the natural way.

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

With thanks to:

• Chris and John Thompson, Bioforce

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