Aeronavics unveil next generation of drones
A Raglan based drone company's new products could help farmers reduce costs and discover crop diseases earlier. Aeronavics is showcasing...
Year: 2015
Golden Pliers on the line for top New Zealand fencers
New Zealand’s top fencers will fight through mud and sweat in the hope of taking home the Wiremark Golden Pliers....
Fieldays bus makes travel easy
Free buses to Fieldays were packed early on Wednesday morning as visitors took the chance to avoid traffic queues. To...
For the love of cooking with Karena and Kasey
MasterChef NZ 2014 winners Karena and Kasey Bird will be attending Fieldays for the first time this week. They will...
Liefting, 60, set for one last Golden Pliers competition
After 40 years of competing, Nick Liefting is preparing to lace up his boots one last time for this year’s...
Building a town
Exhibitors. Check. Event design. Check. Endless proofing. Check. Two weeks before Fieldays begins, Mystery Creek’s Fieldays event manager Lee Picken...
Rural, yes. Bachelor, no.
While this year’s Rural Bachelor finalists are announced in the leadup to Fieldays, last year’s winner packs up his things...
St Paul’s students set for farming challenge
Two dozen farming enthusiasts are gathered in a room. Some are gazing at their computer screens, highlighting in their notebooks,...
Working for a sustainable future
On a road between Hinuera and Matamata there is an example of sustainable farming. A windbreak, as high as a...
Women in agriculture
If you think women see Fieldays as an opportunity just to wear their annual colourful pair of gumboots and check...
Garments from Nepal go on sale despite quake
Two Waikato sisters at Fieldays selling woollen garments from Nepal left that country just a day before the April earthquake....
Eye Sight sculpture wins No 8 Wire award
Auckland-based sculptor Rebecca Rose battled with wire for more than a month to take home the top prize for Fielday's sponsored annual NO 8 Wire Competition. Artists...
Maxi-Trak Quatro is ready to hit the market
An Otorohanga farmer's invention is about to hit the market - five years after it won first prize at Fieldays....
Who cares if it is wet?
If it’s June and it’s raining it’s because the Fieldays are on. It’s a hoary old adage, for sure, but it has...
International drawcard
International exhibitors are drawn to Fieldays by the lure of the business possibilities at the biggest agricultural show in the...
Food for all
You’re walking around Fieldays and you start to feel hungry. How do you choose what to eat? The good thing...
New Generation Liquorice return with extra range
Last year’s Fieldays was such a sweet experience for first-timers New Generation Liquorice that they have returned in 2015 with...
Townie heads to the farm
The sun is trying to shine, but I can’t feel her warmth. It is deceiving, hiding behind a crisp fog...
Fieldays fun for kids
Splish, splosh, the sound of children running around in their gumboots and looking for their next target – puddles to...
It’s all about cheese
Sue Arthur dedicated her life to cheese when a mid-life crisis struck in 1990. She wanted to open a business...
Innovative app launches at Fieldays
A free app has been created for this year’s Fieldays. The app uses iBeacon technology and allows users to see...
Drone company flying high
Just outside Newcastle in Australia, near some of the pylons and high voltage lines that deliver power to the city,...
Onyx Studio to develop young, local theatre talent
Veteran thespians and acting teachers Brendan West and Louise Drummond at Hamilton's Meteor Theatre. A career treading the boards may...
New induction system introduced to Fieldays
Fieldays exhibitors setting up their sites have faced an extra hurdle this year, as inductions have been introduced to meet...