Agriculture

RNZ's rural news reporter, Sally Murphy, takes a look at the week's agricultural news. Audio

RNZ's rural news reporter, Sally Murphy, takes a look at the week's agricultural news. Audio

The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio

RNZ's rural news reporter, Leah Tebbutt, takes a look at the week's agricultural news. Audio

The Detail visits New Zealand's last commercial wool weaver, Inter-Weave, to find out how they're helping keep the wool industry alive. Audio

The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio

RNZ's rural news reporter, Sally Murphy, takes a look at the week's rural news. Audio

Wool was once the backbone of our agriculture industry, but now farmers are struggling to make a buck from it. What happened? Audio

Country Life talks to Jen Chrisp who cooks for the shepherds at Puketoro Station. She's carrying on the cookhouse tradition of New Zealand's extensive and remote back country farms. Audio

A lot of lambs hit the ground during the recent cold snap and losses are a growing concern in Te Tai Tarawhiti while in Otago there's more feed sitting around than usual so farmers are set up pretty… Audio

Agricademy doesn't have classrooms or a campus, instead students can dip in and out of on-line videos, filmed with experts in the dairy or wool shed. Audio

A team of hunters heads out every five weeks to a hill country farm to harvest deer meat for Tai Rawhiti's food banks which have been under pressure after devastating weather hit the region this year… Video, Audio

From the back country to the coast, and the flats and rolling hills in between, you won't find many places or people untouched by the claws of cyclones Hale and Gabrielle which ravaged Tairāwhiti at… Audio

If you've got an old Massey Ferguson tractor sitting in your paddock, the Pasifika Safe Shelter Trust would like to hear from you. Farmers in Tonga could do with them because ash from the huge… Audio

Hinds at Pāmu's Aratiatia deer milking unit are finishing up providing rich creamy milk for the season. Country Life is there at milking time to see how it's done. Video, Audio

RNZ's rural news reporter, Leah Tebbutt, takes a look at the week's agricultural news. Audio

Only 6 percent of NZ school leavers go into jobs in the agriculture sector - and most are male. Girls Who Grow is a new organisation on a mission to change that and encourage young women into careers… Video, Audio

Autumn in Manawatu has been one out of the box. As a result, farmers are taking a fair bit of feed into winter. There won't be much work being done on farms in Southland this weekend - duck shooting… Audio

The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio

RNZ's rural news reporter, Sally Murphy, takes a look at the week's agricultural news. Audio