#Ploughing16: Space age meets the Olympics of the land as agri-business goes hi-tech

It was the day space age met planet ploughing on the tillage fields of Scraggan.

It was only a matter of time before the high-tech benefits and sometimes jarring jargon of space travel research impacted on an event that has its roots in one of the oldest practices on earth — tilling the soil.

Many of the tools for precision farming including satellite guidance systems that save time and reduce production costs were on view at the 800 acre site for the first of the three-day national ploughing championships.