Over 1,200 Exhibitors Confirmed for Fieldays 2026
More than 1200 exhibitors will showcase their products and services at next month’s National Fieldays, with sites nearly sold out.
OPINION: The old saying 'a new broom sweeps clean' doesn't always hold up, if you ask the Hound.
New management at an organisation doesn't always change a rotten, broken culture, which seems especially true of the Wellington bureaucracy, the Gilding On types who remain indifferent to changes on the 9th floor of the Beehive.
However, your old mate hears that changes in HQ at Mystery Creek may bode well for a long-overdue attitude adjustment with Fieldays.
For years, exhibitors at the event have complained about the high-handed indifference they've copped from the crew running NZ's biggest ag event.
Many have stopped attending altogether, fed up wsith spiralling costs, obstructive clipboard carriers and a dubious ROI.
Time will tell if this has changed, but early rumblings are positive!
OPINION: Farmers around the country are welcoming the proposed reform of local government.
A move to boost farmer uptake of low methane emitting sheep is underway.
Silver Fern Farms has tackled the ongoing war-induced shipping challenges to mideast markets by airlifting 90 tonnes of chilled New Zealand lamb and beef to the United Arab Emirates.
The primary sector is leading New Zealand's economic recovery, according to economist and researcher Cameron Bagrie.
Dairy industry leader Jim van der Poel didn't make much of the invitation he received to the recent New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards in Rotorua.
Farmers around the country are going public big time, demanding their local district, city and regional councils come up with amalgamation plans that meet the needs of rural communities and don't allow urban councils to dominate.

OPINION: The old saying 'a new broom sweeps clean' doesn't always hold up, if you ask the Hound.
OPINION: This old mutt went to school to eat his lunch, but still knows the future of the country, and…