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...
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‘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...
All set for Fieldays
For the eighth year running Wintec journalists, photographers and graphic designers will be providing a daily record of the goings...
Chris Byram – the mortuary technician
My job basically is the day to day management and running of a modern day mortuary. Naturally with death being...
Hamilton artists collaborate online to market craft
For Hamilton artists, Kobi Brinkman, 67, Jack Parle, 81, and Heather Adlam, 76, anything beyond their craft is “going through...
Pacific sci-fi movie is no “ordinary” Kiwi film
Waikato film maker Julia Reynolds has embarked on her hardest cinematic venture – a Pacific sci-fi feature set 70 years...
In conversation with Browsers’ owner, Rebecca Pope
Within the last couple of years, two of Hamilton’s bookstores have closed. This comes as quite a blow to a...
Nick Atkinson – The volunteer worker
It’s early morning and outside the entrance of Waikato Hospital there is a slow procession of people walking in and...
Jayne Marshall – The information desk
From when Jayne Marshall was four, she dreamed of being Dorothy, and getting lost in the land of Oz. Sitting...
Reverend Raumiria McRobert – The chaplain
Reverend Raumiria McRobert counsels the sick and afflicted at the Waikato Hospital, sometimes in situations that she would never have...
Rangi Iti – The enquiries administrator
A gentleman walks up to Rangi Iti’s enquiries desk, “I hear you know everything!” She laughs and agrees with the...
Julie Burling – The barista
Julie Burling loves coffee so much that even as she backpacks across Greece, she will be searching for hints to...
Geneaologist captures family histories in earthquake-shattered Canterbury cemeteries
As much of Christchurch’s past lies in pieces, a Canterbury writer is in a race against time to preserve the...