South Australia
The Yorke Peninsula Field Days held every second year at Paskeville are the oldest field days in Australia (dating from 1895) and the largest in South Australia.
Other field days are held at Barmera in the Riverland (annually since 1958), Cleve on the Eyre Peninsula and Lucindale in the south east of the state.
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