Many more people flocked to an Outram dairy farm open day at the weekend than had visited last year, farmer Duncan Wells said yesterday.
Farmers Duncan and Anne-Marie Wells own Huntly Rd Dairies, which attracted about 140 visitors during a Fonterra Open Gates event last year.
But yesterday, attendance rose more than threefold and about 430 people visited during the latest dairy farm awareness-raising event, Mr Wells said.
![Farmers Duncan and Anne-Marie Wells help explain about milking sheds during an open day at their Huntly Rd Dairies farm yesterday.](https://www.nzherald.co.nz/resizer/v2/6T4FTTJ2GI3Q37J6DJ4HGJBXRE.jpg?auth=b7b0652b97e51a1e26dabb2dce228490d56d26a7e656fbc8c7e8e91bf7769cd1&width=16&height=11&quality=70&smart=true)
About 20 Fonterra staff, farm staff and some other farmers from the area also pitched in to help run a series of fun activities, including farm tours, during the three-hour event, which ended at 2pm.