Friday, March 29, 2024

Fieldays postponed indefinitely

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This year’s Fieldays at Mystery Creek has been postponed indefinitely because of the ongoing impact of covid-19.
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Chief executive Peter Nation said the difficult decision was made because there is no means of knowing what the continued effects of covid-19 will have on the events sector and the organisation’s ability to stand-up an event in the future, in an email sent out to all exhibitors. 

As an alternative, Nation has proposed an online version of Fieldays to give exhibitors a platform to connect, demonstrate and sell their products to customers.

“This is where you can connect, sell product, conduct presentations or demonstrations and support the economic backbone of the agricultural industry which is instrumental in pulling New Zealand through our current challenge,” he said.

Nation is aware an online platform will not work for every organisation and has virtual sites priced at different levels to reflect that. They range from basic interaction to maintain contact, through to e-commerce sites that will support global connections, trade and export opportunities.

Rather than repaying exhibitors site fees for this year’s event will be kep and exhibitors will be offered a discount for either the postponed physical Fieldays or the online event, equivalent to the value of site fees paid.

For those exhibitors who just want their site fees refunded, Nation said “As we are unable to know when the Government’s restrictions on mass gatherings may ease we will be reviewing potential postponement dates for the physical event every three months until the end of the year at which time if we are unable to resume the physical event until June 2021 we will consider the process of refunds.”

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