The 45th New Zealand National Agricultural Fieldays closed its gates on Saturday after a fantastic four days of business and a massive 125,127 visitors attended the iconic event held at Mystery Creek every June.
Visitor numbers averaged more than 30,000 a day.
The southern hemisphere’s largest agribusiness expo had 28,445 people through the gates on its final day with plenty of new products and technologies for visitors to discover.
NZ National Fieldays CEO Jon Calder said it was a very positive wrap-up to a great event that had seen a large number of quality visitors attending exhibitor’s sites.
“It was great to see such a large number of businesses making record sales and leads. The positivity evident across our exhibitors and visitors sends a strong signal that there is confidence and a buoyant mood across our agricultural and primary sector.
“It’s likely that the most significant results though will continue long after we closed our gates.”
Peter Goldfinch, Suzuki Motorcycle dealer executive, says Suzuki is really proud to be associated with Fieldays which is always a really successful event for them.
“It’s been great to be involved with the ‘rural bachelor’ competition. We’ve really enjoyed watching the competitors in their challenges and sponsoring a major prize.
“Suzuki is proud to support a young farmer – Simon Washer – who’s on his way to a stellar career.”
Other awards at Fieldays:
Tractor Pull Awards 2013
Brent Garrett Award (medal) – Matthew Gaze
Best first year award – Simon McNiece, $300 prize
Weight transfer awards – all winners received a cash prize of $700 0.
0.5 – 5.5T – Bill Reymer
5.5 – 7T – Nick McFarlan
7-9T – Mark Jackson
9-11T – Gary Gallagher
11-15T – Cameron Lea
Weight adjusted awards
1st Mark Jackson, who received $800 and a Suzuki two-wheeler motorbike
2nd Shawn Luxton, who received $800
3rd Simon McNiece, who received $500
Corporate challenge
1st place – Steel & Tube
2nd place – Husquvarna
3rd place – Goughs
The next New Zealand National Agricultural Fieldays will be held on June 12-16, 2014 at Mystery Creek Events Centre, 10 minutes south of Hamilton.
