If you plough the match plots at the same time as the unploughed land, you will turn up all the buried trash, and replant the weeds! reploughing the plots only does this but then, when the field is ploughed, all the trash is in the right place, buried.
And next to none in the premier class, the one which puts people through to the national, as area reps.Those are the people you want, every match has no trouble filling the multi furrow class. Visitors come to a ploughing match to see something special, not the same thing available over almost any hedge. World style, High cut, vintage and classic provide this, and therefore effort should be made to encourage them, and that means ploughable plots. Ploughing societies expect competitors to do their best for the society, is it to much to expect the society to do its best for the competitors?
Quite so, but perhaps the man likes to keep the chemicals down, or perhaps hates the patch of freshly washed trash visible after the first rain on the match area?
Whilst I agree to a point, but when is ploughing ploughing? Pushing soil 10" across per furrow is not my idea of ploughing, here with our brash we call it bulldozing, fields that tend to do this I use a cultivator instead of a plough.
That response typifies the attitude of many societies, who forget that without the ploughmen, there is no match! The match ploughmen should be honoured guests, but usually they are treated as a necessary evil.Many travel long distances to attend matches, the organisers of which use the ploughmen's skills to sell their event, this being so, then the ploughmen have a right to expect consistent ploughable land , so that they can exhibit that skill, not look fools in the eyes of the paying public. Public who wont be so keen to pay next year if the work is poor.
The main attraction at your event are the ploughmen, without their skills, you have no event, so you are using their skills to market an event.
Quite.Perhaps some of the problem is that organising societies are of course local, so fail to appreciate the effort some competitors put in to attend their event, couple that with the "its only a bit of fun" idea, and season with "its the same for everyone", and soon any old field will do. Most competitors are craftsmen who want to do a good job, and have something to be proud of at the finish. Something they can stand at the end of, and explain how and why things have been done to the members of the public who express interest. Its heart breaking to travel a long distance to find you spend all day towing large lumps of the field about, ending up with a plot that looked far better before you started!
Perhaps the word market is incorrect for your match at least, but any match with an admission fee for the public makes this questionable. However, I stand by the fact that,organisers expect the entrants to do their best, why is it wrong for entrants to expect the same.
