Episodes

  • FULL SHOW: Country Life for 22 November 2024

    FULL SHOW: Country Life for 22 November 2024
    Nov 22 2024
    Country Life gets the low down on greenhouse gases, chats about wallaby control in Bay of Plenty and is with schoolkids helping restore habitat for the endangered Canterbury grass skink.
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    53 mins
  • Schoolkids put buzz back into biodiversity on farm

    Schoolkids put buzz back into biodiversity on farm
    Nov 22 2024
    Young school students plant habitat for an endangered skink and learn about biodiversity at a nature reserve on a North Canterbury dairy farm.
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    22 mins
  • Getting the jump on New Zealand's wallabies

    Getting the jump on New Zealand's wallabies
    Nov 22 2024
    Standing at the wallaby control fence in Rotorua, biosecurity expert Dale Williams gives Country Life an update on efforts to control the pest.
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    10 mins
  • Rural News Wrap for 22 November 2024

    Rural News Wrap for 22 November 2024
    Nov 22 2024
    A round-up of the week's news from New Zealand's primary sector.
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    5 mins
  • The lowdown on greenhouse gases

    The lowdown on greenhouse gases
    Nov 22 2024
    RNZ Climate Correspondent Eloise Gibson talks about agriculture's role in the production of greenhouse gases, what people get right and wrong about methane, and explains exactly what the ETS is.
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    14 mins
  • FULL SHOW: Country Life for 15 November 2024

    FULL SHOW: Country Life for 15 November 2024
    Nov 15 2024
    This week Country Life chats to a young woman learning the ancient craft of saddlery, meets a dairy farming couple who no longer use imported feed and synthetic fertilisers and heads out on a hunt for wallabies in the Bay of Plenty.
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    49 mins
  • On the hunt for wallaby at "Ground Zero"

    On the hunt for wallaby at "Ground Zero"
    Nov 15 2024
    Iwi are trying to reclaim their forest from mobs of wallabies which they say are killing the bush and gobbling up pasture around Rotorua. Country Life heads out on a wallaby hunt.
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    19 mins
  • Healthy cows and worm-rich soil make Motupipi milkers happy

    Healthy cows and worm-rich soil make Motupipi milkers happy
    Nov 15 2024
    There's no looking back for a Golden Bay dairy farming couple who eliminated imported feed and synthetic fertilisers from their paddocks.
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    14 mins