Susan Murray

It's been foggy, frosty and wet in the North Island and belatedly the green kiwifruit harvest is starting to hum. Meanwhile in Central Otago, temperatures have been below zero and stock are being fed… Audio

Country Life for Friday 26 May 2017. Audio

The dairy season is coming to an abrupt halt in the North Island and in the South, winter's made an appearance. Audio

Country Life finds out about the first ever major Chinese/NZ government pastoral farming joint venture and where it's at now as Landcorp hands the management of the former Crafar farms back to… Audio

Rain arrived onto already wet pastures in the North Island and in the South, it's becoming too cold for the grass to grow in Central Otago. Audio

The changing landscape of the Clarence River, dairy woes in Australia, the Regional Wrap, 17 years of advice to life-style block owners and bikes and bowties in Taumarunui. Audio

More dairy herds are being dried off, or slowed to once a day milking now and there's the first snow on some North Island ranges. Southland dairy farms are also moving down to 16-hour-a-day milking in… Audio

Country Life for 5 May 2017. Audio

Lovely calm and sunny days, with cool nights, let North Island farmers and croppers get onto the land for cultivation or repair work, and the kiwifruit harvest had an uninterrupted week for a change… Audio

Hazelnut harvesting, Regional wrap, Te Whare Ra and Wimbledon remembers. Audio

The North Island is drying out after the Easter rain, and cool temperatures are helping kiwifruit mature. The rams out in force on hill country farms in Marlborough and there's tons of feed around… Audio

Herlihy Family shearathon, Little River Support Group hosts the Giant Pumpkin Festival, and the Coronation Garden in Little River. Audio

Many North Island farms have saturated soils after a week of rain and in-between the downpours contractors are trying to harvest maize. In the South Island rain is destroying grape crops in Malborough… Audio

South Island Field Days, Tutsan Action Group, Kiwi Bites, Wheat Growing Record. Audio