On Country Life tonight, farming couple struggle to get their heads around new rules and regulations, and a bank has gone to great lengths to ensure its staff and clients get to walk on woollen carpet.

Her parents were among New Zealand's first macadamia nut growers but Janet Charteris has taken over the original orchard shed near Oakura in Taranaki and installed a big and shiny copper still. Janet says forget gin, there's a rum revolution happening and her brews have the added flavour of homegrown fruit.

The new farm manager at one of New Zealand's biggest sheep and beef properties in North Canterbury has hit the ground running. As well as getting up to speed with a holistic grazing system established by the farm's US owners, Michael Whyte is also dealing with extensive damage to infrastructure caused by the devastating floods in June.

The Canadian Province of British Columbia has been inundated with floodwaters - 18,000 people have been stranded, roads, houses and bridges have been destroyed and farms are awash. Country Life speaks Chris Kloot who is a dairy farmer in the affected area....

Full Episode for Friday November 19 2021.

Hot, windy weather has been very drying for Hawke's Bay and in Nelson, the bees have been taken out of gold kiwifruit blocks and are now in with the green.

A group of farmers near Palmerston North are taking the lab into the paddock and learning to understand and measure what's running off their land into streams and creeks and eventually the Manawatu River. Kakahi and other aquatic wildlife depend on their careful management of the land.

Fencing contactor James Ewing has two years of work ahead of him at Lees Valley Station in North Canterbury. He was erecting a deer fence along the valley road when Cosmo Kentish-Barnes stopped for a chat. Nearby, digger driver Daniel "Horse" Wycliffe repairs a damaged bridge. Farm manager Michael Whyte says the June flood event washed out the approaches to three bridges in the valley.

Lincoln University soil scientists have developed a new method to treat farm dairy effluent to produce clarified water for recycling and to reduce the environmental risks from the land application of effluent. Professor Keith Cameron says it's phenomenal how much water can be saved at a milking shed by recycling it.

Rain and hot weather has split cherries in Hawkes Bay. Southland's had a stunning week for getting crops in the ground,