Carol Stiles

Manawatu and Rangitikei farmers will spend much of summer cleaning up the mess after this week's flooding, and in the south, boysenberry crops have suffered in the wet. Audio

On Country Life, a couple of wine-mad viticulturists have transformed a limestone quarry into an organic vineyard that pays homage to the grape-growing traditions of the Burgundy region in France, and… Audio

Scotty Newman and his team clean out woolsheds - not inside - but underneath. They dig out decades worth of compacted sheep manure. Video, Audio

Unvaccinated shearers are a vexing issue for East Coast sheep stations, the feed situation's come right in Manawatu and between showers, everyone's making baleage in Canterbury. Audio

Fine wool fills the shearing shed, Covid lockdown sparks fishing fever, Canadian beef rancher battles poor prices and the Regional Wrap Audio

Pukekohe's potatoes are being harvested and Marlborough's pear crop is looking light so very little thinning's required. Audio

On Country Life tonight, farming couple struggle to get their heads around new rules and regulations, and a bank has gone to great lengths to ensure its staff and clients get to walk on woollen… Audio

Full Episode for Friday November 19 2021. Audio

Building bridges and fencing farms in an out-of-the-way valley, cleaning milking sheds made easier with clear water, testing Manawatu water and the Regional Wrap. Audio

Damaging winds around Opotiki in the Bay of Plenty have blown over shelter trees in kiwifruit orchards and whipped flowers off the vines. On the West Coast of the South Island mating is going well on… Audio

On Country Life, a wrap of farming conditions around NZ; Farm talk with Benthem Farms in Michigan and Vanya Maw has been running Wyenova Organics since 1992 and farms just about anything edible that… Audio

Country Life visits a sheep and beef farm near Culverden that has it's own brand of fine merino blankets and yarns, a Western AustralaTasman dairy farmer talks about the challenges he's facing, the… Audio