The event from June 16-19 is back after switching to a virtual-only form last year due to covid-19 restrictions.
Its online event attracted 90,455 visitors and viewership from more than 75 countries. Fieldays 2019 saw 128,747 people visit the event, generating $549 million in sales revenue for New Zealand businesses.
This year’s event will see over 1000 exhibitors on show, ranging from agribusiness motor vehicles, dairy, agri-machinery, rural living and heavy equipment.
Fieldays is known for bringing some of the biggest names in the primary sector together, with some exhibitors having attended for more than 50 years.
Quinn Engineering managing director Alex Quinn has been attending and exhibiting, since his father Eddie attended as an exhibitor in 1970.
“Fieldays is business as usual for the staff at Quinn and having missed direct contact with our clients and dealers last year, it will be nice to get back to the basics and meet up again,” Quinn said.
The Health and Wellbeing Hub is also back and is run this year in collaboration with Mobile Health, who provides elective day surgery for patients in rural NZ and supports the rural health workforce.
Mobile Health chief executive Mark Eager says the initial idea behind the hub was to build a “health centre of the future” and “provide an interactive platform that farmers and growers can resonate with”.
At the 2019 Fieldays, 25,000 people came through the Health and Wellbeing Hub, which spoke volumes on the importance of having a positive platform to engage and inform people about their physical and mental health.
A new feature of the hub this year is GlobalHQ’s healthcare caravan The Glob, where farmers can get free health assessments.
Anyone who receives abnormal test results at other organisations within the hub, such as a suspicious skin lesion from Melanoma NZ or abnormal blood pressure from the Heart Foundation, will also be referred to The Glob.
The hub will also provide people information on the covid-19 vaccine and immunisation rollout at the covid-19 vaccination Waikato DHB stand.
Other regulars are back, including the fencing competition, the tractor pull and excavator competition. The Rural Living Precinct has also returned for farmers or outdoors people looking for clothing that will withstand the elements.
