Held over two days this year’s match was held on grounds near Gilford kindly granted by Richard Gilpin, Albert Kinnear, Jonathan Richardson, Brian Lilliburn and Gilfresh Produce.
Day one was a fantastic day with great weather and soil condition, Saturday was more of a challenge with heavy reain and grey skies, however the weather did not darken spirits in the field and a fantastic weekends competition was had.
The event drew a large attendance over the two days as well as Agriculture Minister Andrew Muir, ABC Council Alderman Stephen Moutray and DUP MLA Carla Lockhart, in attendance on the Friday.
As well as the Northern Ireland Ploughing Association championships the event also hosted the Northern Ireland Vintage Ploughing Association Championships and the Five Nations Championships which saw ploughmen from England, Scotland, Wales, Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland compete for the title of Five Nations Champions titles.
As well as a fine standard of conventional and reversible tractor ploughing, on Saturday their was horse ploughing with Daniel McAllister coming first, Victor Scott, second and ROI Coleman Coogan, third.
There were a good turnout of trade stands and marquee stalls with a wide variety of produce from across the province.
