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Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy has congratulated the National Fieldays Society for another successful event at Mystery Creek in Waikato.

Artist Ben Pearce, of Napier, has won the big prize in the 2016 Fieldays No.8 Wire National Art Awards.

St Paul's Collegiate students received the Young Innovator of the Year Award, presented by Fieldays chief executive Peter Nation, for Crankholder – a trailer attachment that makes drilling post holes safer and more cost efficient.

A big crowd of 28,058 turned up to the first day of the NZ National Agricultural Fieldays' 48th year yesterday.

Alpine Buildings, Timaru, claims to be New Zealand's first company to make complete kitset buildings and is well known for developing a bird-proof rafter called Zero-Bird-Perch.

The 2016 National Fieldays is underway with organisers hoping to bring town and country together in the advancement of agriculture.

A new programme celebrating and promoting careers in the primary sector has been launched by Prime Minister John Key, Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy and senior Ministers at National Fieldays.

New Zealand agriculture faces a period of unprecedented opportunity and change," says Mark Hiddleston, managing director ANZ Commercial & Agri.

The latest offerings from some of Europe's leading farm machinery manufacturers will be on show at the New Zealand National Fieldays.

New Holland has expanded its tractor offering with two new models, the T7.290 and T7.315.