Local ploughing matches

Ploughing matches are held across the UK and throughout the year. They offer the chance for both novice and experienced ploughmen and women to take part. Dust off your tractor and pull out your plough – there will be an opportunity to show off your machine and furrowing skills this year after all.

The coronavirus pandemic has forced the postponement. Where is the ploughing and hedging match? What is plough match?

When are ploughing matches held? Held annually near to the Village of Budby, on the A61 in North Nottinghamshire. This amazing event is held in a different part of the country each year. The Championships offers a rare glimpse of how farming has changed over the past 3years – magnificent heavy horses and many styles of vintage tractors and equipment and steam ploughing engines.

VPlough is a great way to keep the spirit of ploughing matches alive and provide a virtual meeting place for farmers until they can get back together in future years. Last year more than 2spectators, young and ol gathered at a charity vintage ploughing match held at Allerby Hall, near Aspatria. Each year the match is held at a different host farm around North Somerset.

Dates, Locations, Announcements, Contact Details, Email, Website etc etc, all welcome!

Also announcements such as cancellations, date or venue adjustments, basically anything that you think that competitors, potential competitors or visitors to your ploughing match need to know. As usual there will be the normal ploughing match in the morning and the Country Show in the afternoon with all your favorite exhibitions and demonstrations.

Please find out further detail about the event, when they become available, here. The physical size of the match has grown and it has undoubtedly become more important to the local farming and agricultural community.

It is a skill which has also evolve as ploughing by tractors with no cabs or sophisticated hydraulics has given way to a mixed entry of modern, vintage, steam and horse ploughs. The original objectives were to coordinate dates of local matches, to encourage good ploughing by holding instruction days, and to promote ploughing matches within a mile radius of Banbury Cross.

The event is being held by kind permission of W. Yorkshire ploughing matches has 0members. We are acutely aware of the disappointment so many ploughmen and women must feel seeing all their local matches postponed or cancelled because of the Covid-crisis.

Whilst the decisions the many Societies and Associations have made are of course sensible and necessary, the ploughing match season is a great social time for many, and the events will be sorely missed by competitors and. With many ploughmen and women acutely disappointed at the cancellation of this autumns round of local and national ploughing matches, a novel way of circumnavigating the problem has been reached with the introduction of Vplough a virtual ploughing match with judging taking place on the th September.

Entry fees remain at £for members and now £for non members. South West Matches We’re a Sociable Bunch. Cups, prizes and plaques are awarded to the top entrants in each class.

National Vintage Area Final) Sep 9-10. The 114th Annual Match will be held by kind permission of Colin and Robert Prince. A traditional autumn countryside event sees local farmers test their ploughing skills.

Craft and working exhibitions plus cookery, handicraft,garden produce competitions too.

Hosted by John Parry and. The soil was sand with chopped straw on top and very dry and burying the straw was the biggest problem.

Those and the shows we attend at Harrogate, Scotland for the Royal Highland and lots of other more local shows such as Driffiel Ripley and Malton plus the ploughing matches and demonstrations. Sunday, 2nd October. With the Scottish Championships cancelled back in July, organisers of the local Grampian Supermatch were still optimistic that local ploughing matches could still take place. They were used for transport, communication and companionship.

It is still going strong thanks to the tremendous local support which it receives from both farmers and ploughmen in the area. Further details to follow.