Autumn has always been ploughing time in the farming calendar and, in years gone by in the days when every farmer that planted crops seemingly ploughed the land every year except for the years in the rotation when it was left fallow, ploughing matches were the beating heart of the arable world.
If you couldn’t plough straight you had to learn and there was no finer place to see this in action than attending your local annual event that sorted out the men from the boys, and at least very occasionally perhaps, the women from the girls. Ploughing properly was an art form and a source of great pride and honour among the farming community, as it still is, in certain locations.
You couldn’t do that now. There are only two that have survived, us and Barlow. “There was a time way back when you didn’t enter a ploughing match, you had to receive an invitation to take part. “Norton Ploughing Match has an amazing history that we’ve only just, in recent years, found out it extends even further back than when we thought.
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