Sally Round

The best of Country Life. Audio

The rodeo season is underway and Lylah and Riley Wood, two home-schooled teenagers, are in an arena in Waikato practising barrel racing and breakaway roping, rodeo sports which have taken them to the… Audio

Now it's time for Country Life and this week, the team brings you stories about the rodeo world and an old rural homestead which has been turned into a sumptuous retreat. Audio

Trent Garton, a former champion freestyle motocross rider, and his wife Tiki have bought the family farm. It's been a difficult road but they take it one day at a time. Audio

A round-up of the week's agricultural news. Audio

This week the team meets a farming family in Golden Bay who grow, process and sell homegrown meat direct to the public. Audio

This week, there's cheese and eggs on the menu with visits to poultry and goat farms. The team also takes a closer look at what's in the pipeline for farmers to help lower emissions. Audio

A large forestry and sheep and beef farm near the very top of the North Island has been experimenting with biochar from the slash from its pine trees to improve its soils and reduce carbon emissions Audio

This week Country Life's learning about the art of making garden trugs and growing heirloom tomatoes and they'll take you to a farm growing trees, sheep and beef in the Far North. Audio

Standing at the wallaby-proof fence in Rotorua biosecurity expert Dale Williams gives an update on efforts to control the pest. Audio

A round-up of the week's agricultural news. Audio

This week Country Life's on a dairy farm where school kids are planting habitat for the endangered Canterbury Grass Skink and learning about biodiversity and pest control. Audio

A group of Te Arawa iwi are trying to reclaim their forest from mobs of wallabies which they say are killing the bush and gobbling up farmland pasture. While, national efforts to eradicate the pest… Audio

A round-up of the week's agricultural news. Audio

This week Country Life chats to a horse mad Waikato woman training to be a saddler, meets a dairy farming couple who dairy no longer use imported feed and synthetic fertilisers, and heads out on a… Audio

A round-up of the week's agricultural news. Audio

This week Country Life chats to a veterinarian at Wellington Zoo's animal hospital, Te Kohanga, about caring for native birds brought in to the centre and we're at a forum where scientists discuss the… Audio

In a Rotorua lab scientists are cooking up plans to create stockfeed out of captured greenhouse gases from geothermal power stations Audio

Rory Dean, graduated as a vet from Edinburgh University in 2015, and has already filled a book - Adventures of a Country Vet - full of adventures and experiences as a rural vet in his native UK and… Audio

A round-up of conditions on farms and orchards around the country Audio