110,000 visitors!
OPINION: It's official, Fieldays 2025 clocked 110,000 visitors over the four days.
OPINION: The UK's revolving door politics of recent weeks means the country's farmers are getting used to their fifth Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in five years.
The role, equivalent to that NZ's Agriculture Minister, had seen a new face every time 10 Downing Street has had a new resident. And there have been three in just three months.
Since 2017, Michael Gove, Theresa Villers, George Eustice, Ranil Jayawardena and Therese Coffey have held the Secretary's role. Coffey was appointed to the role last week by new PM Rishi Sunak.
Jayawardena holds the record for the shortest tenure - one month and 19 days - under Liz Truss' prime ministership.
A technical lab manager for Apata, Phoebe Scherer, has won the Bay of Plenty 2025 Young Grower regional title.
Following heavy rain which caused flooding in parts of Nelson-Tasman and sewerage overflows in Marlborough, the Insurance & Financial Services Ombudsman Scheme (IFSO Scheme) is urging homeowners and tenants to be cautious when cleaning up and to take the right steps to support claims.
Newly elected Federated Farmers meat and wool group chair Richard Dawkins says he will continue the great work done his predecessor Toby Williams.
Hosted by ginger dynamo Te Radar, the Fieldays Innovation Award Winners Event put the spotlight on the agricultural industry's most promising ideas.
According to DairyNZ's latest Econ Tracker update, there has been a rise in the forecast breakeven milk price for the 2025/26 season.
Despite the rain and a liberal coating of mud, engines roared, and the 50th Fieldays Tractor Pull Competition drew crowds of spectators across the four days of the annual event.
OPINION: It's official, Fieldays 2025 clocked 110,000 visitors over the four days.
OPINION: The Federated Farmers rural advocacy hub at Fieldays has been touted as a great success.