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Competition Ploughing
Scottish ploughing championships cancelled
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<blockquote data-quote="wuddy" data-source="post: 7048789" data-attributes="member: 59038"><p>The nationals are the show piece of the ploughing season, not as you put it a “plain ploughing match”! There is no real reward for holding a match more so at the moment when the potential risks are so high! I would also believe that the expenditure, if a match of this size had to be cancelled at the last minute due to a local lockdown would have a knock on effect for many years to come! The nationals always give the economy in the surrounding area a boost which helps brings local councils, businesses etc on board and helps with advertising and sponsorship which won’t be the case if you have no spectators! (believe it or not you can’t run a national match for free even with no spectators)! There is so much more to it than just getting a few ploughers in a field, and at the moment I don’t think you would be allowed a gathering of 200 +ploughmen/women and all the people required to organise and run the event. At the moment there is just far to much uncertainty to organise large scale events and you would hope in a years time we will be in a much better place with a lot more certainty on carrying out events! Holding a practice day with restricted numbers and everyone’s details collected before the event may be a possibility this year but will depend on if we manage to keep the virus suppressed!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wuddy, post: 7048789, member: 59038"] The nationals are the show piece of the ploughing season, not as you put it a “plain ploughing match”! There is no real reward for holding a match more so at the moment when the potential risks are so high! I would also believe that the expenditure, if a match of this size had to be cancelled at the last minute due to a local lockdown would have a knock on effect for many years to come! The nationals always give the economy in the surrounding area a boost which helps brings local councils, businesses etc on board and helps with advertising and sponsorship which won’t be the case if you have no spectators! (believe it or not you can’t run a national match for free even with no spectators)! There is so much more to it than just getting a few ploughers in a field, and at the moment I don’t think you would be allowed a gathering of 200 +ploughmen/women and all the people required to organise and run the event. At the moment there is just far to much uncertainty to organise large scale events and you would hope in a years time we will be in a much better place with a lot more certainty on carrying out events! Holding a practice day with restricted numbers and everyone’s details collected before the event may be a possibility this year but will depend on if we manage to keep the virus suppressed! [/QUOTE]
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