Field days in Australia

A Landcare Australia survey conducted in 1992/93 revealed Australian farmers place a high value on field days.

[1] The Australian National Field Days which began in 1952 is an annual agricultural exhibition held at Orange, New South Wales each year.

The event is now held at a permanent all-weather rural exhibition site with broad display avenues including a square kilometre (250 acres) of car parking and an on-site airstrip.

[9] Other field days are held at Barmera in the Riverland (annually since 1958),[10] Cleve on the Eyre Peninsula and Lucindale in the south east of the state.

There is now a permanent site with pavilions, conference rooms and catering facilities which is hired out for events other than the field days which are held in early October.

[14] The Notman Pasture Seeds Farm Field Days are held at Poowong, Victoria & Walcha and commenced in 1987.

In 2014 over 400 local farmers attended the Poowong Farm Field Day[15] with speakers including Andrew Allsop (Notman Pasture Seeds), John Mulvany, Steve Monegetti, David Barry, Matt Hall, Adam Fisher, John Gallienne, and Peter Notman.

[16] For many years, three major field days focusing on grain growing and pastoral farming have been held annually in Western Australia, at Dowerin, Newdegate and Mingenew.