THE National Ploughing Championships day two has been cancelled as Storm Ali pummels Ireland – but organisers confirm it will open for an extra day on Friday. It’s the first time the event has had to ...

FARMERS basked in 20C sunshine today as President Michael D Higgins opened the National Ploughing Championship in the “golden fields” of Ratheniska. President Higgins was joined by over 80,000 farming ...

People dressed in traditional costumes attend the royal ploughing ceremony in Kampong Thom province, Cambodia, on May 8, 2023. Cambodia celebrated a traditional royal ploughing ceremony on Monday ...

Unlike a Taylor Swift concert, I have never known of anybody who was unable to attend the ploughing due to a shortage of tickets. Time for a bite to eat in the mud after heavy rain hit the Ploughing ...

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That's how David Gilliland from the Ulster Scots Agency describes the National Ploughing Championships - comparing them to the annual Balmoral Show in Northern Ireland. Almost 100,00 people have ...

Ploughing and tilling on hilly slopes is causing farm soils to thin and threatens future crop yields, a new study finds. Scientists behind the study argue that unless farmers stop tilling hill slopes, ...

Brown bread making, an address from the President and the beginning of the ploughing proper are among the highlights of the National Ploughing Championships at Ratheniska, Co Laois, on Tuesday.

The Irish National Ploughing Championship opened in County Laois on Tuesday Neatness, tidiness and straightness will be among judges' criteria at the Irish National Ploughing Championships, which ...

Thomas Cochrane (centre) has won other ploughing titles in Northern Ireland but this is his first world championship win A Coleraine man has become world champion at reversible ploughing at a major ...

He may be the three-times national ploughing champion, but Shayne Neal is more interested in bushland than farmland. He grew up on a farm, but his path to precision ploughing was not as ...