Laurie Meadows spends his days opening parcels as part of MAF's Biosecurity team at the international mail centre in Auckland.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Fishing at WestportIan McKenzie is a hard nosed fisherman in Westport. He talks about the state of the local industry.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Regional Conditions and FeedbackThe weather's been abysmal all over the country. Cold, windy and wet in the North Island and snowing in many South Island spots.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Intro and GuestThe Opuha Dam Water Management project is the supreme winner of this year's Environment Canterbury's resource management award.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Good as GoldEvan and Jane Birchfield run a successful open cast gold mining business in Ross, a small town near Hokitika on the West Coast.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Ruakura's Transgenic FarmDr Jimmie Suttie, Tim Hale and Dr Vish Vishwanath on AgResearch's transgenic cows and where GM technology may go in the future.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Regional ConditionsIn the North Island temperatures are cooler than usual and windy and in the south tailing ends and cow mating gets underway.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Intro and GuestJoan Baker has written a book to help with succession planning - Your Last Fencepost, Retirement Planning for NZ Farmers.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Williams Land FeatureDeveloper Evan Williams works on the Purerua Peninsula ; a stunning piece of land in the Bay of Islands.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
FleecedNorth Otago wool spinner and weaver Doe Arnot talks about her work that sells at the Oamaru Textile Exchange.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Regional ConditionsIn the North Island the first avocado exports for the season have started and in the south chilly winds cool a warm spring.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Intro and GuestWhitebaiter's try thier luck at Granite Creek near Karamea on the West Coast.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Asparagus BreedingAsparagus breeder and grower, Dr Peter Falloon talks about this slender green lilly you eat in spring.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Tender MeatAgResearch scientists have come up with the ideal way of telling how tender a piece of meat will be without taking a bite.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Agri NewsFarming Systems Uruguay halts development, milk tanker driver shortage delays milk pickups and new kiwifruit being bred.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Regional ConditionsMost North Island regions got some rain on Thursday night while Canterbury dries out.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Intro and GuestLocusts once again plague the Australian State of New South Wales.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Milking BuffaloHelen and Richard Dorresteyn have been perfecting the art of milking buffalo, turning the porcelain white milk into mozzarella.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Arborist Reginald Day (circa 1948)A 1948 peacetime mobile radio unit interview with Reginald Day who talks about New Plymouth's wonderful trees.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Wheat Out Of TenCanterbury farmer Alastair Barnett is New Zealand's top feed wheat grower for the second year running.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Regional ConditionsNorth Island grass growth's a bit slow and frosts tickle the Southern North Island and South Island.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Intro and the 2008 Grasslands ConferenceWhats on this year with Grasslands chairman Dr John Caradus.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Kakanui WillowVannier Mike Lilian has been weaving for twenty-five years and is one of only two or three full time willow weavers in NZ.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Having a BlastIan Park, Roger Readington and Giles Russell love blowing things up. Today's job: a 500 metre long boggy drain in Manawatu.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Agri NewsA campaign for a $150 lamb, dung bettles, robot milking and science lessons don't engage youngsters.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Regional ConditionsNorth Island grass growth's a bit slow and frosts tickle the Southern North Island and South Island.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Intro and DroughtThere are early signs of a dry start to summer.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Serving It Up At WimbledonFormer Auckland lawyer Emmeline Gadsby runs the unique pub that's located on Cape Turnagain in Southern Hawkes bay.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
A Fine BlendWinemaker Guy Porter gets closer to his dream of producing Bellbird Spring vineyard's first bottled wine.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Occasional SeriesDave Miller on the meaning of the farming term commonly known as... ABListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Regional ConditionsA fine week in the North Island as lambing comes to an end and the South Island's covered in spring blossom.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Hazel RiseboroughHazel Riseborough talks about her book Shear Hard Work.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Feature Country ParishReverend Ken Light is the vicar of the Glenmark Church in the heart of North Canterbury.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Making spaghetti out of meatMaking spaghetti out of meat...will it tempt the kids?Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Regional ConditionsThe docking irons come out in the North, while most of the South Island has been basking in the hot sun.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
John ReeveJohn Reeve of the Food Safety Authority on melamine in milk.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Zakar BeefMartin Grant and Miranda Marsh run an organic beef farm in South Auckland with its own farm butchery.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
The Butcher's ApprenticeDayna Marshall is only 17 (and obviously female) and a butcher trainee in a busy outlet in a Hamilton city suburb.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Penguin HostelJanice Jones set up the Kakanui Penguin colony. She's also written about her life with penguins... from a penguin's perspective.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Intro, Guest and FeedbackPeter Schouten lost many cows to a flooded Eyre River several weeks ago.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Primary Focus SoapboxLachie Grant and Sarah Dudin say soils are the powerhouse of a farm. Their mantra: match land use with land typeListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
The Riverstone RevivalAfter years of dairy farming with husband Neil in North Otago, Dot Smith converted a farm shed into a kitsch and gift shop.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Offal ExportsEnergetic Angela Payne owns Agri-Lab Co-Products, a company specialising in dissecting animals.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Regional ConditionsA generally fine week in the North Island, but the South Island's East Coast got some rain.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Intro and GuestJohn Fegan takes issue with a comment this week about dairy farmers not paying their staff enough money.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Shear DelightThe Mullins family has a passion for shearing and a heart for young folk needing a second chance.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Carrot JuiceTwenty truck loads of carrots are squeezed for their juice each day at a new Timaru plant.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Regional ConditionsSome parts of the North island saw welcome sunshine this week, while North Canterbury was inundated with rain.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |
Intro and GuestSteve Bush and his team at Trees for Canterbury are making their region greener.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |