OPINION: There were clear winners and losers in this year's regional field days circuit.

National Fieldays will this year celebrate 50 years of showing farming’s best to country and town. 

New on the Gallagher site at the National Fieldays will be its TW series of weigh scales and its insulated line posts.

National Fieldays is living up to its theme ‘Leading Change’, having spent $1.3 million to revamp the Mystery Creek site.

Rural service provider Farmlands has become a major sponsor of the National Fieldays.

Visitors to Mystery Creek couldn't fail to notice a new addition for 2016 on the largely green John Deere site, in the shape of the yellow JD 624K wheeled Loading Shovel.

Animal management and fencing supplier Gallagher took out a gong at Fieldays 2016.

Visitors to the Vodafone Fieldays site had access to free Vodafone Rural Connect wi-fi and were able to gauge mobile and broadband coverage on their properties using Smart Farm Test stations.

The basic reason for Fieldays hasn't changed in its nearly 50 year history: getting willing buyers in front of enthusiastic sellers and enticing them with the hint of a bargain or two.

Fieldays 2016 has come and gone, and the weather was kind – cool mornings and a little seasonal Waikato fog.