A drench gun that receives data via wifi to calculate the exact dosage needed, and a capsule inside a cow that sends data to a smartphone about its health.

It's a cross between a mountain bike and a motorcycle that's not only environmentally-friendly but light on the wallet.

A 4WD track featuring steep slopes, a waterfall, boulders and pools of water is one of the attractions at this year's National Fieldays in Hamilton.

Gone are the days of Fieldays visitors being happy with a pie, chips and a hot dog.

Fieldays, New Zealand's largest agricultural fair, finished yesterday with 125,127 visitors attending the four-day event at Mystery Creek in the Waikato.

Matamata sharemilker Fergus King showed off brute strength when he cleaned up in the wood-chopping heat of the Fieldays rural bachelor of the year competition.

An aerial robot armed with live-feed cameras that can monitor farms while the owner is at home enjoying a cup of tea is being tipped as a gadget that could get city-slickers back to the country.

Liz Light visits Fieldays, the biggest, fattest farmers' market in the Southern Hemisphere.

Designers showcase 'wearable art' garments from materials found and or used on farms at the NZ National Agricultural Fieldays. Photographs by Christine Cornege

Carmaker takes big outing for farmers and their chequebooks very seriously.

World champion wood chopper Jason Wynyard needed more grunt so he ripped a cylinder from a snowmobile.

Agricultural sector seen moving from survival mentality to productive mode.