A photography exhibition showcasing the integral role women play in their rural communities will be launched at the Newdegate Machinery Field Days this year, a first for the iconic event.
Melissa Pedelty
A generous prize is up for grabs at the Newdegate Machinery Field Days’ State Ewe Hogget Competition.
Bob Garnant
Two of the country WA’s biggest community-focused organisations — Community Bank Kulin and AFGRI Lake Grace — have once again thrown their support behind the Newdegate Machinery Field Days as major partners.
Cally Dupe
Newdegate Machinery Field Days committee member Lynne Ellard has been involved with the town’s iconic annual event for about 40 years and remains a loyal volunteer.
On behalf of the Newdegate Machinery Field Days Committee, I would like to welcome you to our 53nd annual event.
Ashley McDonald
Newdegate’s Melita Davey is busy carving out a life-long career at CBH’s Pingaring site while staying true to her local Wheatbelt roots.
Georgia Campion
Newdegate Machinery Field Days president Ashley McDonald will step down after this year’s event, leaving a blank canvas for a “fresh approach” by incoming president Stephanie Clarke-Lloyd.
A major new attraction at this year’s Newdegate Machinery Field Days will be a large-scale public mural by renowned WA artist Jacob ‘Shakey’ Butler, who will paint the piece live during the two-day event.
Newdegate Primary School teacher of 15, Mel Brinkman says her students are gearing up and brimming with excitement for the Newdegate Machinery Field Days — a highlight on the school calendar.
Newdegate sporting groups will be the recipients of funding raised by the hard-working kitchen volunteers at this year’s field days.
Newdegate Machinery Field Days Farmers’ Challenge founder Tim Walter is marking 30 years of farming in Newdegate’s tight-knit community after making the move from Bridgetown.
Local egg farmer Lyn Kennedy has become part of the fabric of the Newdegate Machinery Field Days and this year marks a historic milestone for her: the supply of more than 50,000 eggs to the event since 1983.
The world’s agricultural largest drone, the DJI Agri T100, will make its WA debut at the Dowerin Machinery Field Days, showing off its advanced spraying technology.
Enchanting fairies, cuddly animals and a delicious smorgasbord of food delights paved the way for a festive Gidgegannup Small Farm Field Day that was both educational and a barrel of good old country fun.
Mooliabeenee’s Bev Murphy had no idea her life would revolve around tiny sheep sporting knee-high woollen boots until she stumbled upon an ABC Landline episode six years ago.
The Up The Garden Path section will return to the Gidgegannup Small Farm Field Day for a second year.
The 18th Gidgegannup Small Farm Field Day promises to be a great day out, with this year’s theme “Sexy Soil: The Power Beneath” set to highlight how important high-quality soil is to small landholders.
There is an invisible world of bees waiting to be discovered.
Casey Lister and Cally Dupe
WA’s annual Olive Festival will celebrate its fourth year at the Gidgegannup Small Farm Field Day, with plans to again unite the industry.
Australian alpaca farmers are celebrating 35 years of the humble mammal across 2025, from field days to expos, in a bid to lift its national profile including at the upcoming Gidgegannup Small Farm Field Day.
AFL footballers have been bumped from their regular home by 35 bison as one entertainer gets ready to show 800,000 people "what's possible with horses".
Rachel Jackson
White Suffolk breeders had plenty to celebrate in the British and Australasian Sheep Breeds Competition this year, but none more so than Kalagan stud principal Josh Addis, of Denmark.
Competition was fierce in the Poll Dorset judging at this year’s Wagin Woolorama, but it was a ram from Quairading’s Shirlee Downs that proved too good to ignore.
It was a family affair when Sasimwa Suffolk Stud took out the Wagin Woolorama’s top interbreed sheep contest with a “stand-out” ewe.
