Pasture Summit Spring 2026 is an on-farm dairy field day on 24 November 2026 at the Halliday farm, 1014 Rawhiti Road, Reporoa, run 9:30am-2:45pm by the farmer-led not-for-profit Pasture Summit with ASB and DairyNZ.
Pasture Summit returns to the central North Island on Tuesday 24 November 2026 with an on-farm Spring field day at Reporoa, in the dairying country between Rotorua and Taupo. The day is hosted on the farm of Todd & Renee Halliday at 1014 Rawhiti Road, Reporoa, and runs from a 9:30am arrival and morning tea through sessions from 10:00am to roughly 2:45pm, with lunch provided and registration required (organiser and Eventbrite listing).
Pasture Summit describes itself as a not-for-profit established in 2017 by grazing-based farm business owners and dairy-sector experts from New Zealand and Ireland, "organised and run by farmers, for farmers," with support from DairyNZ (pasturesummit.co.nz). The group's stated aim is to build a positive farming community and secure the future of pastoral dairy food production, and it stages on-farm events in both islands each autumn and spring. For the Reporoa event, ASB is named as headline sponsor and DairyNZ as a partner whose specialists present (Eventbrite listing).
The organiser frames the audience simply as the farming community, while the Eventbrite listing pitches the day at young farmers, sector leaders and anyone interested in the future of dairying. Rather than a trade-show format, it is a working field day: advertised programme threads include farmer-led insights, benchmarking, on-farm experience, "science meets practice," and progression and succession (Eventbrite listing). Specific session topics and speakers had not been published on the organiser's site at the time of writing.
Reporoa is a small rural dairy settlement in the Reporoa Valley of the central North Island, inland from the Bay of Plenty and roughly midway between Rotorua and Taupo. The host address, 1014 Rawhiti Road, is a working farm rather than a conference venue, so the event has no formal venue facilities; as a field day, delegate movement is by private vehicle, and attendees should expect rural-road access and on-farm parking. The nearest commercial airport is Rotorua (about a 40-minute drive north), with Taupo airport a comparable distance to the south-west; the larger towns of Rotorua and Taupo are the practical bases for accommodation and meals, as Reporoa itself offers limited services. This is reporting on access, not an endorsement of any transport operator.
Pasture Summit sits in a distinct corner of New Zealand business events: a farmer-governed, sponsor-backed knowledge series that rotates across host farms rather than booking convention centres. For the primary sector it is a recurring fixture that pairs peer benchmarking with DairyNZ science, and the Reporoa day is one of two Spring 2026 editions, alongside a Canterbury event at Hinds on 26 November 2026 hosted by James & Laura Bawden (pasturesummit.co.nz).
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