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| Description | A weekly programme of issues and stories of particular concern to the rural community, and also of interest to a general audience. | |
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| Category | Society & Culture |
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1. Off the Grid download (audio/mpeg, 8.45Mb) Description: Alternative energy is Albie Burgers' passion - along with recycling and reusing. Amelia Nurse visits his rural Takaka property to see some of his amazing projects. |
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2. Go Goat Milking download (audio/mpeg, 4.12Mb) Description: After being a closed shop for over 20 years, the NZ Dairy Goat Co Op is suddenly after new suppliers. Its growth in export sales has far outstripped its supply base, and returns for farmers are extremely attractive .. it's just dairy goats are more work than dairy cows |
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3. Regional Wrap download (audio/mpeg, 2.51Mb) Description: Summer's finally hit in the North Island and on the west coast of the South Isalnd regular rain is helping farms get into shape for autumn. |
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4. Gidday and Guest download (audio/mpeg, 1.44Mb) Description: Steve Wratten, Professor of Ecology at the Bio-Protection Research Centre at Lincoln University. |
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5. Kakepuku Conservation download (audio/mpeg, 6.21Mb) Description: Kakepuku is a steep, distinctive mountain to the south west of Te Awamutu in Waikato. Seventeen years ago local farmers started pest control work on its 200 hectares. Now the bush has regenerated, and in 1999 native robins were translocated from Pureora Forest. More recently native falcon, karearea, have been added to the mix. |
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6. Gorgeous Garlic download (audio/mpeg, 4.06Mb) Description: Liz Stanway grows 50 thousand bulbs of organic garlic on her property near Raglan. |
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7. Regional Wrap download (audio/mpeg, 2.78Mb) Description: Export blueberry prices are much stronger at last, but avocados are not doing so well. In the South Island temperatures have been cooler and Southland farmers are still recovering from the drought conditions in January.. |
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8. Gidday and Guest download (audio/mpeg, 2.11Mb) Description: Massey University professor Dr Jacqueline Rowarth has just taken up a newly formed role as Professor of Agribusiness within Waikato University's Management School. The University wants graduates to come out with a better understanding of agriculture and agribusiness. |
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9. The Buller Bushman download (audio/mpeg, 8.16Mb) Description: Stephen McGrath lives with his son and daughter in the old Newton Livery between Murchison and Inangahua. He is a bush farmer with a passion for Clydesdales, who earn their keep by working the soil and carting firewood up from a Kanuka forest he has planted on the edge of the Buller River. |
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10. Prinz's Mushrooms download (audio/mpeg, 4.93Mb) Description: Twenty-five year old Lennart Prinz grows oyster mushrooms in a grow-room constructed out of recycled materials. He sells the fleshy fungi at local markets. |
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11. Regional Wrap download (audio/mpeg, 2.89Mb) Description: The North Island is flush with feed but many pastoral farmers are now struggling to maintain its quality. Store stock are fetching extremely good prices. In the South Island Canterbury's had marvellous weather for farming while Southland's dairy farmers are struggling with very dry condition. |
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12. Gidday and Guest download (audio/mpeg, 1.47Mb) Description: David Rose is a farmer from Southland - which has been on the brink of a drought. He says the summer dry has put crops back by a few months. |
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13. The Last Colonial download (audio/mpeg, 7.64Mb) Description: Doug Wallace uses horses to pull a bush-tram through his plantations near Taupo. |
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14. Bucking Hell download (audio/mpeg, 8.39Mb) Description: The Rangiora 8 Seconds Bullriding Rodeo pits New Zealand best riders with a truckload of angry Kiwi bulls that are bred to buck. |
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