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The National Agricultural Fieldays is an annual national
agricultural show An agricultural show is a public event exhibiting the equipment, animals, sports and recreation associated with agriculture and animal husbandry. The largest comprise a livestock show (a judged event or display in which selective breeding, bree ...
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field day Field day may refer to: * For the armed forces use and its derivatives, see wiktionary:field day * Field day (agriculture), a trade show * Field Day (amateur radio), an annual amateur radio exercise * Field Day (band), a Canadian pop-punk band fro ...
event held in mid-June at the Mystery Creek Events Centre near
Hamilton Hamilton may refer to: * Alexander Hamilton (1755/1757–1804), first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States * ''Hamilton'' (musical), a 2015 Broadway musical by Lin-Manuel Miranda ** ''Hamilton'' (al ...
, New Zealand. It styles itself as "the biggest agricultural trade show in the southern hemisphere". Fieldays attracts 1,000 exhibitors and over 115,000 visitors through its gates.Fieldays
Retrieved on 29 November 2008 Smaller shows, held annually in New Zealand's towns and communities, are generally called ''agricultural and pastoral shows'' (A&P shows). The event has visitor attractions such as sheepdog trials and tractor pulling contests. Between 1985 and 1998 the Fieldays Society operated a short-term radio station for Fieldays visitors. Ag Week Radio, later known as Fieldays Radio, operated from the Mystery Creek site. It broadcast on 1XR 855 AM in 1985 and 1988, 1296 AM in 1993, 792 AM in 1994, 94.6 FM in 1997 and 97.0 FM in 1998. Fieldays was suspended in 2020.


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Agriculture in New Zealand In New Zealand, agriculture is the largest sector of the tradable economy. The country exported NZ$46.4 billion worth of agricultural products (raw and manufactured) in the 12 months to June 2019, 79.6% of the country's total exported goods. Th ...
* Field days in Australia *
Field day (agriculture) Field day may refer to: * For the armed forces use and its derivatives, see wiktionary:field day * Field day (agriculture), a trade show * Field Day (amateur radio), an annual amateur radio exercise * Field Day (band), a Canadian pop-punk band fro ...


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National Agricultural Fieldays
Trade fairs in New Zealand Agricultural shows in New Zealand Defunct radio stations in New Zealand Winter in New Zealand Events in Hamilton, New Zealand Radio stations established in 1985 Radio stations disestablished in 1998