Agriculture

A start-up called Magic Beans is helping connect people and save money by swapping home grown food.

Aaron Dodd, Chief Investigator and Deputy Director of the Centre for Excellence for Biosecurity Risk Analysis, based at the University of Melbourne, chats about the foot and mouth disease risk for New…

Truffles are in hot demand but one grower says the wet season means her harvest is down considerably.

A New Zealand-designed frost fighting machine that looks like a giant hair dryer could become hot property in France.

How hard was it to get a free trade deal with the European Union across the line? 

The Detail podcast brings you the issues that matter every weekday. Here's what we covered this week.

Twenty years ago, he thought human-induced climate change was a load of rubbish. Now, George Moss' dairy farms are leading the way in counting - and cutting - greenhouse gas emissions.

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…

Could cows be toilet trained and how close will dairy farmers be to slamming emissions a decade from now? Dairy farmer Pete Morgan and agritech entrepreneur Craig Piggott ruminate on dairy farming in…

In celebration of Country Life's 25th birthday we will be delving into the archives over the next few months. This week we're watching expert fencers face off with their tools and technique at the…

For 23 years, the warm, lively voice of Country Life presenter and producer Carol Stiles has been synonymous with RNZ's rural storytelling As she moves on from the job, Carol chats to Sally Round…