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Fieldays® – Growers encouraged to enter their ideas in Fieldays Innovation Awards
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GROWERS
ENCOURAGED TO ENTER THEIR IDEAS IN FIELDAYS INNOVATION AWARDS
In recent years, agricultural innovation has been building momentum, helping farmers, growers, and organisations across the food and fibre sector work smarter, not harder.
A globally renowned awards programme, Fieldays Innovation Awards, is hungry for new ideas in the innovation space. Representing the innovation lifecycle in three award categories, Prototype, Early-Stage, and Growth & Scale allows individuals and companies, big or small, to get the support, recognition and mentoring they require to take their innovation to the next level. Special recognition is also given to younger innovators, with an award for the Fieldays Young Innovator of the Year. Programme Developer for the New Zealand National Fieldays Society, Steve Chappell, says that the ideas nurtured through the Fieldays Innovation Awards are needed now more than ever.
The landscape is changing rapidly, and innovators are rising to the challenge. Climate change, labour shortages, and how we will secure ample food and fibre for the world’s growing population are issues that continue to weigh heavily on our industry and can be answered with innovation.
With a total prize package over $60,000 worth of cash, services and products with tailored opportunities to progress innovations in each award category application, these awards are highly regarded. The Fieldays Innovation Hub is the platform that showcases these award entrants as well as other innovative problem solvers and creators. The experience of exhibiting in the Fieldays Innovation Hub was “nothing short of life changing,” says Marianne Awburn, co-founder of Springarm Products, winner of the 2021 Prototype award. “Connecting with our audience and getting a chance for real-life feedback was priceless – we wouldn’t have wanted to launch our product any other way. Winning the award was the icing on the cake!” Applications for the Fieldays Innovation Awards are always open. The cut-off for applications for the 2022 Awards is 1pm Thursday 6 October 2022. Apply now at: www.fieldays.co.nz/innovation
Fieldays 2022 30 Nov – 3 Dec.
Fieldays Innovation Hub
Site: Located at the intersection of D Street and M Road, Mystery Creek Are you ready to see the future? Visit the Innovation Hub to see the latest innovators, inventions, and industry developments all aimed at improving New Zealand’s primary industries.
