Fairfield is the Malting Barley Capital of the World, a trade center for the farming community. It offers a scenic 9-hole golf course at Harvest Hills Golf Course, with the Rocky Mountain Front and spectacular sunsets as a backdrop. Nearby Freezeout Lake is Montana's primary snow goose staging area, a place where as many as 300,000 snow geese and 10,000 tundra swans gather in the spring and rest before flying onward.