SIAFD Agri-Innovation Award Winner

Repost win the 2025 South Island Agricultural Field Days Agri-Innovation Award.

Stunning autumn weather has ensured strong crowd numbers on the opening day of the South Island Agricultural Field Days in Kirwee, drawn to the wide array of exhibitors, demonstrations and competitions with a strong rural focus.

Those competitions on day one included the Agri-Innovations Awards, showcasing the latest and most inventive solutions to farm problems and tasks offered by a range of established and start up technology companies.

This year’s Agri-Innovation winner award went to Marlborough company Repost that takes vineyard posts and repurposes them for other fencing applications, saving thousands of tonnes of timber from landfill.

Repost took out the top award with its portable hydraulic nail puller, developed specifically for pulling nails from vineyard posts. The second prize was awarded to Rakaia based Plucks Engineering for its Hose Runner, a towable device that can lay or wind up 300 meters of 20mm alkathene hose in only minutes.

The winners take home $1000 and $500 each from the South Island Field Days Society. They were among 17 entrants in the competition that included devices and technology as varied as a nanobubble agritech pivot system, to a towable road grader machine for farm raceways.