Fine weather reaps crop of posh cuts and politicians

A TILLAGE farmer eavesdropping on some of the talk among the women at the National Ploughing Championships in Farmley, Cuffesgrange, Co Kilkenny, would have been initially delighted. For some of the chat in the tented town referred to fine crops, good cuts and even extensions.

The plight of farmers trying to save the harvest and secure a longer deadline from the Government and the European Commission for the completion of farm waste management works was clearly in the mind of the ladies.

Or so it seemed. But it turned out these women were not farmer WAGs (wives and girlfriends) worried about saving the crops still in the ground. They were stylish fashionistas showing more interest in glamour headlines than testing headlands.