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Country Life for Friday 24 June 2022
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Country Life for Friday 24 June
9:07 PM.A wrap of farming conditions around NZ, Tourism venture pivots to Teaching, Rayne Bradley reaches the halfway mark, Capturing Tuna and Healing Maori land through hemp. Read more Audio
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On the Farm - a wrap of farming conditions around NZ
9:07 PM.A farmer on the East Coast has just finished pregnancy scanning ewes, while some of the very early flocks are starting to lamb. Cows in Southland have settled on winter crops and sheep are break… Read more Audio
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Tourism venture pivots to teaching
9:12 PM.Kohutapu Lodge was humming four years ago, it was welcoming international backpackers and living up to its five word motto "Changing a town through tourism". Overnight all that changed. After many… Read more Audio
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Rayne Bradley reaches the halfway mark
9:20 PM.When Taumarunui student Rayne Bradley arrived in the big smoke of Hamilton earlier this year to study tourism she was nervous and homesick. A couple of weeks later she was feeling a bit more… Read more Audio
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Capturing tuna
9:22 PM.Five years ago Himiona Nuku started capturing eels full of eggs and helping them on their migratory journey. That was because two power stations on the Rangitaiki River were blocking their path. Read more Audio
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Healing Māori land through hemp
9:33 PM.Isaac Beach felt like Neil Armstrong on the moon when he first stepped foot on a block of land he's now planting up with hemp. The crop is part of efforts to heal the land and involve its Māori… Read more Video, Audio