Ploughing ahead in the nation’s fields of dreams

Tomorrow morning, from just before dawn, the first of probably 200,000 people will set foot on the site of the 2013 National Ploughing Championships.

It has been 70 years since the ploughing folk came to Ratheniska for the first time in 1943 for what would have been a very different event.

Just thinking about what’s ahead tomorrow, it would be hard not to stop and wonder did our founders ever imagine, even in their wildest dreams, the legacy that they were passing down through the generations.