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• Fieldays record turnout comes with growing pains
  Exhibitor and vendor sites were sold out a month before the event, with 1100 stalls on display. […]
• Fieldays saw largest opening day crowd in recent history
  More than 132,000 people attended the four day event at Mystery Creek, near Hamilton, which ran from Wednesday to Saturday. […]
• Country Life: How Filipino farmers are supporting NZ’s rural towns
  Filipino farmers play a major role on farm, and in rural communities. […]
• Country Life: How leftovers are giving back to the land
  Food scraps from retirement villages and schools have helped nourish a banana orchard and other farms via the City to Farm project. […]
• E-bike makers Galvbike riding agritech wave at Fieldays
  Anthony Clyde, considered the godfather of e-bikes in New Zealand, has created a new electric farmbike that's proving a hit at Fieldays, the Galv […]
• Scanabull technology among Fieldays Innovation Award winners
  "It's validation of many years of hard work, which is really cool." […]
• ACT favours sheep over choppers for weed control on conservation land
  Agriculture spokesperson Andrew Hoggard says grazing sheep on conservation land is a win-win. […]
• Controversial electric collars get PM's approval
  The prime minister has ruled out any added regulations for virtual fencing technology. […]
• Fieldays acts as launching pad for $110 million in new funding initiatives
  $51 million of it will be used to help roll out new methane-busting farming technology. […]
• Inside Fieldays 'Drone Zone'
  An increasing number of farmers are using drones to spray and spread fertilizer on their land. […]
• Dairy debt falls by almost $5 billion
  When dairy does well, generally New Zealand does too, co-founder and director of agri-finance advisory NZAB says. […]