{"id":627740,"date":"2026-09-17T18:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T18:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/627740\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T18:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T18:36:09","slug":"old-skills-meet-new-technology-at-irelands-ploughing-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/627740\/","title":{"rendered":"Old skills meet new technology at Ireland&#8217;s ploughing championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afp.com\/en\/urn:newsml:afp.com:20260917:05fc0d89-ff6f-48b6-b014-46ad1120d9bc\" rel=\"http:\/\/cv.iptc.org\/newscodes\/ninature\/video nofollow noopener\" shape=\"rect\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                 Among the roar of tractors and clip-clop of horses, precision, tradition and technology meet in rural Ireland&#8217;s biggest annual gathering: the National Ploughing Championships, where horse-drawn ploughs and GPS-guided machinery offer contrasting visions of farming\u2019s past and future. Veteran competitors preserve skills once passed down through generations, while engineers explore how &#8220;autonomous tractors&#8221; could support an ageing workforce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Among the roar of tractors and clip-clop of horses, precision, tradition and technology meet in rural Ireland&#8217;s biggest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-627740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}