• Country Life

  • By: RNZ
  • Podcast
  • Summary

  • Country Life takes you down country roads to meet ordinary people achieving their dreams. We live in a beautiful country and we'd love to show it. Have you got a great photo? Drop us an email below.
    (C) Radio New Zealand 2024
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Episodes
  • From the Archives - The Country Vet
    Jun 7 2024
    This 1975 Spectrum documentary follows a day in the life of rural Gisborne veterinarian, Mac Wallace. His day begins with a cow having trouble calving and ends at Turehau station, where a group of calves have mild scours and an old mare needs some attention.
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    20 mins
  • NZ's top milking herd - small but mighty
    Jun 7 2024
    New Zealand's most productive Jersey herd is small but mighty and like family to Taranaki dairy farmer Cliff Shearer. He is up to his 10,250th or so consecutive milking in one of the region's last walk-in dairy sheds and gains much of his knowledge from his large collection of vintage farming books and herd records.
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    17 mins
  • Of all sheeps and sizes
    Jun 7 2024
    A large part of Brian Hales' farm recently sold and will soon go into pines. We caught up with the sheep and beef farmer, to find out what was happening to his flock of rare and exotic sheep breeds.
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    6 mins

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