Fieldays TV - All the action from the Southern Hemisphere’s largest agricultural event, right here

Things are heating up at Fieldays this year - quite literally, as the four-day event shifts to the summer months for the first time ever. From November 30 to December 3, we’ll bring you all the video content from the Southern Hemisphere’s largest agricultural event right here - available to you on demand from the comfort of your lounge, the shearing shed or the back paddock.

Friday, December 2

There’s plenty to see on day three of Fieldays TV.

In the studio - Dr Jacqueline Rowarth conducts two diverse panels on the pros and cons of gene editing, and the hot topic of irrigation - from a soil and pasture point of view.

Cheree heads back to the Health & Wellbeing Hub to talk brain health, and goes one-on-one in a thrill-filled tractor race.

Mike Chapman is back to discuss the issue of losing valuable farmland to housing, and hosts a timely talk on labour shortages, while Radar checks in with a panel of experts to talk about data and its growing role in agriculture.

Cheree books in for Cutz & Korero with the Environmental Protection Agency, and tries Beer Goggles on for size.

We also meet last night’s winner of the Growth & Scale Innovation Award and round out Fieldays TV 2022 with a taste of sustainably-sourced cauliflower ice cream.

Thursday, December 1

Day two of Fieldays TV had plenty of action in the studio and out in the field.

Radar talks investing with Kernel Wealth, sustainable farming practices with Pāmu and inflation with economist Cameron Bagrie.

Cheree tries her hand behind the wheel of a big rig, and visits the super-sized Health & Wellbeing Hub, where complimentary health checks are available to all.

Mike Chapman, our resident expert on all things employment and strategy related, moderates a panel of pundits discussing how the primary sector can work within He Waka Eke Noa.

Cheree checks out a couple of finalists in the Innovation Awards, visits the Forestry Hub to see how the next generation can benefit from the Kids Grow a Great Tree campaign, and tries on ground-breaking, one-of-a-kind shoes.

Back in the studio Radar meets the men behind TracMap - making precision farming simple.

Wednesday, November 30

On day one of Fieldays TV, we bring you highlights from the opening ceremony and the eagerly-awaited KPMG Agribusiness Agenda.

In a follow-up session KPMG’S Global Head of Agribusiness, Ian Proudfoot, expands on the morning’s key topics with our host Radar.

From the field, roving reporter Cheree Kinnear plays excavator golf with a compact Yanmar digger from TDX Limited, and test drives the Isuzu DMax ute - one of which is up for grabs!

Minister of Agriculture Damien O’Connor drops by the studio, plus Radar talks supplementary feed with the New Zealand Feed Manufacturers Association and meets the makers of Farmgate, a company revolutionising security practices in the rural sector.

We also learn about a stunning new innovation in on-farm pregnancy testing for cows, and Cheree tries her hand at virtual pruning.

Fieldays TV

For over 50 years, Fieldays has connected communities from town and country across all corners of Aotearoa New Zealand and around the globe, becoming a household name for all things agriculture.

Fieldays provides New Zealand’s primary industries with an international marketplace to advance agriculture while honouring its three pillars – innovation, education and globalisation.

With something for everyone we wouldn’t want you to miss anything, so we’ll be compiling each day’s content for you and publishing it right here.

From around 6.30 pm daily Wednesday to Friday we’ll be bringing you all the highlights from the field and inside the FieldaysTV on-site studio.

Fieldays’ very own host Radar will return to interview the movers, shakers and change-makers.

He’ll be backed up by a team of experts who’ll deliver in-depth analysis - leaving no topic untouched, no stone unturned, and no innovation undiscovered.

NZ Herald’s roving reporter Cheree Kinnear will also be there and she’s not afraid to get her hands dirty - sampling everything from tractor racing to cauliflower ice cream.

Another favourite will also return - Fieldays Kitchen - with seven celebrity chefs showcasing the very best of Aotearoa’s primary produce. From hand-caught butterfish to gorgeous earthy beetroot - if you grow it - they’ll cook it.

FieldaysTV - it’s the next best thing to being there.