Young Farmers win the Jubilee Award
The New Zealand Young Farmers took out the Jubilee Award for their laidback farm-style exhibit, complete with barby and tug of war rope.
New Zealand Young Farmers – Jubilee Award
The New Zealand Young Farmers took out the Jubilee Award for their laidback farm-style exhibit, complete with barby and tug of war rope.
Vice President of Te Kawa Young Farmers Gareth Welch describes the site as
“pretty homely. It’s encapsulating the rural people and the Young Farmer’s spirit.”
He says a lot of thought and preparation went into the setup and they have had a few thousand people come through since Wednesday.
“We’re ecstatic, absolutely blood top dog, yeah loved it,” says Welch.
AgResearch – Merit Award Premier Feature
AgResearch’s giant bug and gras- filled exhibition has won the Merit Award for a Premier Feature.
Mike Trolove from AgResearch says the site design was very topical to their theme Partnerships for Better Pastures and this helped to attract big numbers.
The exhibition featured interactive displays and featured a one-and-half metre long black beetle designed by WETA workshop in Wellington.
Trolove says a lot of time and money had gone into the design and layout so the team was thrilled to be recognised.
“It was really good, certainly being in the premier area, it meant quite a lot to us from that aspect, so yeah we are really happy.”
Best large outdoor site
Honda Motorcycles New Zealand took out the award this year for best large outdoor site and the team were all very happy with the achievement.
Events co-ordinator for Blue Wing Honda Peter Finlay said the effort behind the scenes has been acknowledged with the award.
“A lot of hard work goes in behind the scenes so it’s really good to be acknowledged. We have got a smart layout here,” he said.
“We want to thank the judges and everybody involved for being smart enough to pick us,” he said.
Medium outdoor site
The best medium outdoor site went to Gallagher animal management.
Regional sales manager Mathew Macfie said that they were stoked with the award.
“We have put a lot of effort in and it’s a big thing for us. We have won a few other awards over the years and this is the fifth one for the outdoor site in 10 years,” he said.
The site has seen major changes with a canopy being removed after 20 years and now there is a large dome outside.
“We just tried to make it look different. The site feels so much bigger now and everyone has said that there is so much more space.”
Best International Exhibitor Site – Seasol
Australian based Seasol has taken out the award for Best International Site at Fieldays.
The company who specialises in manufacturing high quality kelp, fish and soil additives has only shown at Fieldays once before and believes greater preparation has led to their award.
“We are all very excited about winning and it really helps to create a greater presence in the New Zealand market,” sales manager Rick Keene said, “We can’t rest on our laurels and will be back again next year to try win again.”
Best Mystery Creek Pavillion Site – Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
This is a first win for Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, who have been at Fieldays for many years.
Communications Adviser, Lisa Gibbison, said it took a lot of work from many different people to pull the site together and is happy to see all the hard work being recognised.
“It took a number of months and a team of designers to get this site up and it is really great for it to be acknowledged.”
Rory MacLellan, MAF Bio security, said they won because of the friendly people manning the stand.
Best Premier Feature Site – Mobile Surgical Services
Mobile Surgical Services is thrilled to win the award for ‘Best Premier Feature Site.’
Steve Smith, rural health development manager, said, “It is such an important opportunity to be here and we are extremely pleased to get an award.”
The MSS team spent nine months planning for the site.
Mr Smith believes the uniqueness of their site won them the award.
Small Outdoor Site
Lending his eye-catching truck to sit centre- stage of the ARB 4×4 Accessories display paid off for Distributor Tim Crawley after his site won the best small outdoor site award last night.
“It was a great surprise. We put a bit of thought into it but you’ve always got to revise on the day,”he said.
Best Indoor Site
An enticing bowl of giant jaffas is proving just as successful at bringing in the parents as the youngsters for best indoor sight award winners, stock feed suppliers, SourceNZ.
Erin Stables, the mastermind behind the site design, is keen to get more space next year, offer coffee alongside the jaffas and take out the title again
Best rural living area site
The Waikato and Bay of Plenty Division of the Cancer Society had a giant walk-through tunnel made specifically for Fieldays to show people the progression of colo-rectal cancer.
This fun and visual way to educate people has proved successful with a lot of people stopping by for a look.
“Kids are particularly curious and bring the parents in too, which is great,” said on-site nurse Vicki Donderwinkel.
Best Food site
Nomad Coffee stalls have taken out the prize for best food site, a great reward for the flat-out staff manning the 22 stalls dotted all over Fieldays.
The quick, friendly service has made for thousands of happy customers in need of a good dose of caffeine or a winter warm up.
List of the Best Site Awards of 43rd Fieldays
Jubilee Award – Young Farmers New Zealand
Best Food site – Nomad Espresso
Best Rural Living Area site – Waikato/Bay of Plenty Division of the Cancer Society
Best Indoor site – SourceNZ
Best International Exhibition Area – Seasol International
Best Mystery Creek Pavilion site – Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
Merit Award Mystery Creek Pavilion – Kiwicare
Best Premier Feature site – Mobile Surgical Services Lt
Merit Award Premier Feature – AgResearch
Best Small Outdoor site – ARB 4×4 Accessories
Best Medium Outdoor site – Gallagher Animal Management
Merit Medium Outdoor site – Attached2 Equipment
Best Large Outdoor site – Honda Motorcycles New Zealand
