The Kaikohe A&P Show is a long-running one-day agricultural, pastoral and horticultural show at Kaikohe Showgrounds in the Far North, run by the Kaikohe A P & H Association on the third Saturday of January. The 2027 edition is expected on Saturday 16 January, pending the society's official confirmation.
The Kaikohe A&P Show is a one-day agricultural, pastoral and horticultural show held each January at the Kaikohe Showgrounds on the corner of State Highway 12 and Ngawha Springs Road in the Far North. It is one of Northland's established rural shows, with recent editions held on the third Saturday of January — 18 January 2025 (gates 8am to 5pm) and 17 January 2026 — and the 2027 show is expected on Saturday 16 January, the same third-Saturday slot. That specific 2027 date had not yet been formally published by the organising society at the time of writing.
The show is organised by the Kaikohe Agricultural, Pastoral and Horticultural Association (historically the Kaikohe A. and P. Society), a volunteer body whose activities have been recorded in local newspapers since at least 1934. The Association does not appear to run a dedicated standalone event website; it publishes its annual competition schedule through the Royal Agricultural Society of New Zealand and takes entries by email. The show sits within the wider Northland circuit of A&P shows and hosts a leg of the ANZ Northland Shearing Competition.
The show is a community and primary-industry event aimed at farming families, lifestyle-block owners, exhibitors and the general public across the Far North. Its programme spans livestock and equestrian classes, wood chopping, competitive shearing, pet calf and lamb competitions, home-industries sections (baking, floral art, produce and children's classes), trade stalls and family entertainment. It serves both as a serious competitive agricultural fixture and as a day out for the wider Kaikohe and Bay of Islands community.
The event is held at the Kaikohe Showgrounds, a dedicated showground on the corner of State Highway 12 and Ngawha Springs Road on the edge of Kaikohe. Kaikohe is the main service town of the central Far North, roughly a 35 to 40 minute drive from the Bay of Islands. The nearest airport is Kerikeri (Bay of Islands) Airport, which has regular domestic connections to Auckland; from there the showground is reached by road, with Kaikohe also accessible via State Highways 1 and 12. There is no scheduled public transport to the grounds, so attendees typically travel by private vehicle, and accommodation is concentrated in Kaikohe itself and in the nearby Bay of Islands and Kerikeri area rather than at the venue.
As a long-established annual fixture on a dedicated showground, the Kaikohe A&P Show demonstrates the Far North's capacity to stage large outdoor gatherings that draw regional crowds, exhibitors and trade stalls to a single rural venue. For business-events purposes it is relevant as a recurring, logistics-heavy event in a region more often associated with tourism than conferencing, showing established local organising capability, an all-day ticketed format, and an audience of primary-industry and rural operators that trade exhibitors and agricultural suppliers actively target.
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