56th British
National Ploughing Championships
was held
Loseley Park, Guildford, Surrey
by kind permission of Loseley Park Estate
on
Saturday & Sunday
14th & 15th October 2006
Local Champion ploughmen and women from throughout Great Britain travelled to Guildford, Surrey on October 14th & 15th, to compete in the British National Ploughing Championships.
Competitors included past and present British, European and World ploughing champions and competition was fierce as ploughmen and women fought for the supreme honour of taking the British National titles and representing their country in the 2007 World Ploughing Contest in Lithuania.
The National Young Farmers Area Champions competed on the first day and ploughmen in the conventional and reversible classes paraded to their plots, with the qualifying ploughmen going through to the finals on the second day.
Classes for vintage tractor ploughing were held on the second day, with area champions in hydraulic, trailing and classic ploughing competing for the honour of being British National Vintage Champion and a place to represent England in the 2007 European Vintage Ploughing Championships.
Visitors saw an extensive trade stand area and a taste of the past supplied by steam ploughing engines; vintage machines at work; a static display of vintage tractors and agricultural engines; and magnificent shire horses at work demonstrating their ploughing skills.
In contrast, top machinery firms were demonstrating their latest, most up-to-date, powerful, multi-furrow ploughing units which can turn over in far less than an hour what it takes the horses a day to achieve.
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