Big response from exhibitors
Working displays, innovative farm competitions, an art and craft area plus a playground for children are all part of the South Island Machinery Field Days at Lincoln next Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. Now situated on a permanent site on the corner of Ellesmere Junction Road and Weedons Ross Road, the three-day show has attracted 93 exhibitors, approximately the same as two years ago when the event was last held.
As well as the 93 exhibitors, special areas have been set aside for machinery to take part in the comparative demonstrations.
The displays will include hay-making, ploughing and cultivating, drilling, mowing, irrigating, harvesting, spraying and demonstrations from many smaller pieces of equipment.
The theme for the field days is “Management of Resources” including the key ingredients of land, labour and capital. One of the highlights will be the fencing competition. This year it will include a one-man competition, a one-man electric fence competition and a three-man team event. The three-man event includes making a 40-metre, 8-wire netting fence with two strainers, one diagonal, one horizontal, eight intermediates and hanging one gate. The single electric fence competition will consist of building an Insultimber fence while the singles competition will consist of 60 metres of fencing where entrants will have to put up two strainer assemblies, nine intermediate posts and hang a three-metre gate. The official opening will be at 1.30 p.m. on Wednesday. Assisting the chairman, Paul Cooper, will be the Professor of Farm Management at Lincoln College, Professor Tony Bywater, and the All Black coach; Mr Alex Wyllie. The gates will open at 8 a.m. each day and admission will be $5 for adults and $2 for school children.
"To attract this number of exhibitors with the present economic climate is a good indication of the hard work put in by the joint holders of the field day, Lincoln College and the Christchurch district of the Federation of Young Farmers’ Clubs,” said the chairman of the field days, Mr Paul Cooper.
Patrons at the three-day show will also have the chance to win a McShane portable sheep yard donated by C.M.I. New Zealand, Ltd. Proceeds from the raffle will go to the Young Farmers Club.
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