Jacob Smith - lacing up a future for NZ wool

Jacob Smith - lacing up a future for NZ wool

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FULL SHOW: Country Life for 26 June 2026

Gianina Schwanecke is talking bulls at a bull sale on the East Coast. Tangihau Angus stud is famous for setting the nation’s top prices. Can it do it again this year? Sally Round is at a coffee tree orchard in the Far North whose trailblazing owner Rob Schluter is on a new path t ...  Show more

Brewing up a taste for New Zealand grown coffee

Ikarus coffee has been a trailblazer growing coffee in NZ. Fourteen years after the first successful seedlings went in, Rob Schluter has doubled the number of coffee trees on his steep farm above Doubtless Bay, and there's a new venture brewing to bring the magic of coffee to lif ...  Show more

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