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 Allen and Chrissie Wright, who say it'll take months and could end up costing hundreds of thousands of dollars to clean up the mess.

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 when he started 25 years ago organic farmers were regarded as rebels. Not so now, and for Kim it's time to kick back a bit, rev up his motorbike and tour the country.

Nuffield Scholar Corrigan Sowman has explored how the pressure that farmers around the world are experiencing affects their decision-making.

June was a fabulous month for growth in the North Island. In the South, Marlborough's welcomed 100 millimetres of rain.

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 vinegar factory in Otaki and two neighbouring flood-hit farmers in mid Canterbury share their stories of the massive clean-up job still ahead.

Jude Horrill and Brent Williams gave up glamorous jobs in IT and change management overseas to farm mushrooms in a container near Levin.

The talk around Alternative Proteins is maturing. Meat and dairy operators say they're complimentary nutrition and shouldn't be viewed as a threat, but rather an opportunity to provide customers with a wide range of food options.

The charity, Meat the Need was launched during last year's Covid lockdown. In its first 13 months farmers donated enough meat to make more than 430,000 meals.

In the North Island there's been an awful lot of rain with the whole East Coast receiving a huge downpour, in the South Island South Otago and Southland farmers are having a reasonably kind start to mid winter.

Country Life checks out what a couple of meat companies and Fonterra are doing with the challenge of alternative proteins and we meet a couple who used to be high flying execs overseas who are now farming gourmet mushrooms in old shipping containers.