FULL SHOW: Country Life for 3 July 2026
Sally Round chats to Otago farmer Becks Smith about her ventures, and Braden Crosby of the Bragato Institute. Anisha Satya eats deep-friend...
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20 of 346 episodesDrilling down into drones on farm
Mark Leishman heads to a South Canterbury farm to join a drone pilot extinguishing weeds and finds out about the potential of the technology...
Should you mothball your vineyard - and how do you do it?
French grape growers are being paid to pull out vines in order to rebalance supply and demand, while those in Australia have taken out milli...
Lunching on locusts
Anisha eats locusts at a food-grade insect farm in Dunedin. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
Becks Smith - farmer, solar entrepreneur and podcaster
Otago farmer, vet and entrepreneur Becks Smith has many jobs. You might find her on a roof installing solar panels, scanning ewes in the yar...
Rural News Wrap for 3 July 2026
A wrap of the week's news from RNZ's rural news team. Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
FULL SHOW: Country Life for 26 June 2026
Gianina Schwanecke is talking bulls at a bull sale on the East Coast. Tangihau Angus stud is famous for setting the nation’s top prices. Can...
Brewing up a taste for New Zealand grown coffee
Ikarus coffee has been a trailblazer growing coffee in NZ. Fourteen years after the first successful seedlings went in, Rob Schluter has dou...
A bullish market at the East Coast bull sales
For the past two years Tangihau Angus had set the top price for the breed and all bulls - breaking two national records. Gianina Schwanecke...
On-farm planting creates mudfish haven
Bill Deans shares how planting waterways on his family's farm have provided a home for New Zealand's second-rarest native fish. You can find...
On the Farm for 26 June 2026
A wrap of conditions on farms and orchards around the country for the month of June Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details
FULL SHOW: Country Life for 19 June 2026
Country Life heads to Gore for the Tussock Country Music festival, visits a woollen mill in the heart of a remote hill country station whose...
A country music pilgrimage
Anisha visits Gore for a slice of the Tussock Country Music Festival - boots, utes, mullets and all! You can find photos and read more about...
Closing the loop: wool to yarn without leaving the farm
Taking the wool off the sheep's back and turning it into yarn within a few paces of the shearing shed has been a dream come true for a North...
Rural News Wrap for 19 June 2026
A wrap of the week's news from RNZ's rural news team. You can find more from RNZ's rural news team, here . Go to this episode on rnz.co...
Wonderful Wool: Nuffield scholar see's bright future for natural fibre
Wairarapa-based Nuffield Scholar Lisa Portas recently wrapped up her research looking into why New Zealand's strong-wool sector struggles to...
FULL SHOW: Country Life for 12 June 2026
This week Country Life heads to a basketball game to celebrate rural migrants, checks out the new tech at Fieldays and follows the journey o...
From the Archives: City to Farm
Food scraps from retirement villages and schools are heping to nourish a banana orchard and other farms via the City to Farm project, which...
Migrants give back to their communities
Anisha learns how the rural Filipino migrant community has grown in the last 20 years - and watches some basketball. You can find photos and...
Galvbike: E-bike makers riding agritech wave at Fieldays
Anthony Clyde, considered the godfather of e-bikes in New Zealand, has created a new electric farmbike that's proving a hit at Fieldays, the...