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Fieldays

New Zealand's great farm show at Mystery Creek near Hamilton, four days each June in the heart of dairy country.

Crowds at Fieldays 2018
Photo: Tom Webb, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Cattle at Fieldays

Fieldays has been held at Mystery Creek, outside Hamilton in the Waikato, since 1969, and it is the largest agricultural event in New Zealand. It runs for four days in mid-June, in the winter quiet before calving, and brings together farmers, machinery dealers, researchers and visitors in their tens of thousands. The Waikato is the centre of New Zealand's pastoral dairy farming, in which cows graze outdoors all year, and many of the exhibits deal with milking, pasture and herd breeding. Competitions range from fencing and tractor driving to the selection of young farmers of the year.

The breeds

Holstein FriesianThe black and white cow of most New Zealand herds.JerseyThe small fawn cow of the grass dairies, often crossed with the Friesian.
About this page

Written by the EveryCow desk with AI assistance. Background: "National Agricultural Fieldays" on Wikipedia. Customs differ from place to place and family to family. If this is your tradition and we have it wrong, tell us.

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