This event clearly illustrates the combination of skills required by the ploughman: he must control and manage the pair of horses or the tractor plus the plough in order to produce winning furrows. Match conditions mean that a crowd of interested and knowledgeable people – mostly men in macs - are watching his every move! It is believed that this colour footage shows the annual competition held by the Cruckton and District Ploughing and Hedging Society, Shropshire.