Susan Murray

Full Episode for Friday June 23, 2017: Taewa for Tea, Good Growers, Pens for Calves and the Regional Wrap. Audio

The price of kumara has shot up because a bad growing season, coupled with appalling weather during the main harvest time in autumn, has seen a 35% drop in volume compared with normal years. Heavy… Audio

Popular Poplars, A Hunting We Will Go, Canaries of the Waterways, Dr Tom: Health Checks @ Fieldays, Perfectly Pink and the Regional Wrap. Audio

Mild, calm weather has been good for vegetable crops in the Pukekohe district and in Otago, electric pruners are chopping through the work in apricot orchards. Audio

Double Dutch, Coming of Age - Big River turns 20, A View from Above, Deer Diary and the Regional Wrap. Audio

On Central North island hill country farms second shearing continues and farmers are cracking on with maintenance. In Canterbury large numbers of dairy cows have moved from dairy farms to support… Audio

Kurow stock agent Madison Taylor, crayfisherman Dennis Burkhart and farming on Motutapu Island. Audio

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