Tractor & Machinery

70 years of success

The 70th British National Ploughing Championships, at Mindrum Mill, Northumberland, on 9-10 October, was a great success – according to the organisers, the Society of Ploughmen.

The site covered almost 300 acres in 14 different fields and was kindly loaned by D Harvey and Son. Visitors and competitors travelled from all over the country, as the event had been postponed for a year due to Covid-19 and was one

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