Uncomfortable neighbours?? #ploughing pic.twitter.com/fIJdeOXqKf
— Jonathan Healy (@jonathanhealy) September 24, 2014
Oh.
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Uncomfortable neighbours?? #ploughing pic.twitter.com/fIJdeOXqKf
— Jonathan Healy (@jonathanhealy) September 24, 2014
Oh.
This ploughing business is all over the media. What IS the fascination?
It’s the biggest outdoor ‘festival’ (of its type?) in Europe, said Mary Kennedy on Nationwide last night.
It’s an absolutely enormous convention tbf, sees tens of thousands of visitors. It has huge business and political ramifications. Showcases the most recent advances in farming technology which are really quite spectacular (and often have an impact on other industries) as well as being worth a fortune to farmers. Ireland’s trade in farming and animal husbandry is worth a significant percentage of our GDP. Horse trading alone is worth tens of billions.
Understood, and fair play to it, winning these fine credentials above. Shouldn’t the name be changed to an Agricultural Show? The visions conjured up are of a load of jolly farmers measuring furrow depths.
As a non-culchie with absolutely no farming background who once went to the Ploughing Championships I’d absolutely agree but at the same time I don’t think they give two cow pats what the rest of think it’s all about! I was very surprised at what was there. Quite interesting technology, particularly around animal husbandry that I reckon probably had a serious impact in human fertility treatment research. There’s bajillions in scientific research behind what gets displayed there.
“Horse trading alone is worth tens of billions.”
Are there still tax breaks for that lucrative nonsense?
Probably.
that’s some bravery them irish water chaps are showing by being there
Would anyone want a tent full of murderers next door?
Is that you Enda?