Kid of the day
Seven-year-old twins Tamara and Mason Millar travelled for over an hour to get to their first ever Fieldays. The twins...
Features
Innovator hopes to slam competition opposition
Kiwi ingenuity icon Burt Munro was the reason American TJ Irvin brought his invention to New Zealand. This enthusiast for deer...
Helicopter provides fun for the fare
Throughout Fieldays, the sky over the Mystery Creek venue will be filled with the sound of helicopter blades. This is...
Forest and Bird push for sustainable farming
Farmers are being offered the chance to embrace new ideas about sustainable farm management at this year’s Fieldays. Forest and Bird...
Caffeine kick for farmers at Fieldays
It appears farmers like coffee - over 3000 cups are sold at Fieldays each year. For all the farmers needing...
Thinking money tree – think Cherry Tree
First time exhibitors at Fieldays, Cherry Tree could be as close as you can get to your personal money tree....
PM John Key opens Fieldays
Prime Minster John Key cut the opening chains of Fieldays at midday yesterday (subs: Wed) symbolising this year’s theme...
Nature gets in the way of technology
Wintec tutors had to think outside the boundary yesterday – quite literally, as tall pine trees blocked the satellite internet...
Sweet-talking Bachelors hit the Fieldays
Clad in Swanndri, khaki pants and work boots, the eight Rural Bachelor Best of the Best competitors sweet-talked their way...
ANZ trials container ATM in Rugby World Cup lead-up
Fieldays is getting a taste of what ANZ has lined up for the Rugby World Cup. The bank has formed...
Top 50 from Ag Art Wear
Photo Gallery of Ag Art Wear by Geoff Ridder and Jenna Jamieson
Rosie the talking cow smiles at Fieldays
Naive, enthusiastic and ready to take on the world. Sounds like an eager child ready for their first day of...
Auckland company lists digger on Trademe for $1
An Auckland compact equipment company has pulled a risky move by listing a digger worth $38,985 for one dollar, no...
Field on Fieldays – Day One
There were five of them, all clad in the proper safety gear – hard hats, hi-viz jackets, steel-cap boots, and...
Unsolved wire sculpture gets judge’s vote
High art and agricultural products are not things which are normally associated with one another but that is the beauty...
‘Dangerous’ hedgehog wins sculpture prize
A dangerous-looking hedgehog sculpture made entirely of wire may have missed out on a big prize at the Fieldays No...
Volunteers work for the love of it
A sixteen-year-old schoolboy steps off a bus outside Hamilton’s St Johns College, turns, and heads off in the opposite direction. ...
Last year’s winning Fieldays invention goes global
In rural Otorohanga sits a shed like any other, housing just what you would expect to see in such a...
Bachelors return for one last showdown
Twenty-eight year old Te Aroha sharemilker, Nick Torrens, was crowned the eighth Fieldays New Zealand Rural Bachelor of the Year...
Waikato inventor matures wine in 3 minutes
A wine glass stands in place of a beaker. Professors pause to smell the aroma as a measure of results....
New snack sensation promises to be “sweet as”
Bill Neal is bringing his new snack sensation, kettle corn, to the masses at Fieldays this week and is pretty...
Fieldays to track farmers using GPS
At the New Zealand National Agricultural Fieldays, Vodafone is providing GPS trackers to 200 farmers visiting over the event. This...
Memories abound as the 43rd Fieldays kicks off
The first exhibitors have arrived and are not long opened for business. The queue for coffee extends some 20 metres....
AgResearch constructs grass jungle
An AgResearch exhibition aims to make Fieldays visitors feel the size of bugs. AgResearch’s exhibition, Partnerships for Better Pastures, features...