Ploughing

The steam ploughing engines will be accompanied by a horse ploughing demonstration and a vintage ploughing match on the Saturday.

This has been a remarkable year for at ploughing events all over the world and it is a true testament to the ploughing talent from this wee country by the results that were gained at all these events.

John McKee from Kilroot Ploughing Society, pictured in November 1980 at the international ploughing match which was held at Moira.

His ploughing expertise on the Murray farm in Ballintrane saw him win the Vintage 2 Furrow Trailer class at the National Ploughing Champions on a total of six occasions, while he also finished second and third in the class.

Contour ploughing mitigates soil erosion by ploughing across a slope, along elevation lines.

A farm worker has died and another was injured on Sunday in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region, after their tractor hit a mine while ploughing a field, the governor said.

A woman “zoned out” behind the wheel, crashing over a roundabout and going airborne, before ploughing into the back of another car.

He made the remarks in a speech, at the National Ploughing Championship in Co Laois, in which he also called on citizens and farmers to “play their part” in combating climate change.

Ian McKerral from Highland Farm on Islay was the judge and said he was impressed with the ploughing on show.

New details are emerging with reporting that Renner was ploughing the road around a quarter mile from his Nevada home to get his family out after a snowstorm on New Year’s Eve.

Next Goal Wins follows the likes of Cool Runnings and Eddie the Eagle in its underdog approach, ploughing a heartfelt furrow along the way.

So far 13 retail chains have committed to ploughing £60,000 into a new operation, named Pegasus - with the cash matched by the Home Office.

So many tasks other than ploughing were done by a pair of horses: harrowing the ploughed fields, rolling with one horse per roller, the pair working in tandem and in echelon, their horseman walking behind the first roller and keeping the second on line.

Tarring “shoddy” roads was another request, and “we also want Ramaphosa to make sure our mining houses are ploughing back to communities in which they mine”.

The magnificent Laois site previously scored the Ploughing three-in-a-row from 2013-2015.

Trade exhibitor Robert Crawford and son Robert with the old Sherman tank bought by his grandfather in 1947 which he converted into a crawler tractor for ploughing.

Whatever the viewpoints, surely all would agree that there is good logic to be found in reviewing costs and establishing the benefits of ploughing on, or holding back further spend if not outright cancellation of those costs prove too onerous.

Adding to the chaos, ’s Andy Cato turns up to espouse the virtues of eco-farming (he runs his own farm, it turns out) and ends up arguing with Cooper about ploughing.

And Madden isn't simply ploughing a lone furrow.

Caroline Thomas opened up her direct messages and implored those who follow her to ask her a question before she started ploughing through some of the ones she had been sent.