{"id":798815,"date":"2026-10-11T04:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T04:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/798815\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T04:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T04:56:15","slug":"ploughing-championships-celebrate-farming-tradition-in-warwickshire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/798815\/","title":{"rendered":"Ploughing Championships celebrate farming tradition in Warwickshire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">James Witty, the 2025 World Conventional Ploughing Champion, said success in the sport required considerable time, dedication and skill.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;d like to say it&#8217;s really easy and anyone can do it, but the truth is it&#8217;s like anything you do when you try to be the best &#8211; it&#8217;s an immense amount of time and dedication,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;There is skill involved, but for me the biggest thing that makes the difference is what are you prepared to do? How much time are you prepared to dedicate?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While the championships celebrated traditional farming skills, the event also provided an opportunity to reflect on the difficulties faced by farmers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The UK&#8217;s hot summer, prolonged dry conditions and a challenging harvest, had added to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/ckg4z8j11j0o\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pressures on the agricultural sector<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Organisers said events such as the British Annual Ploughing Championships were important for celebrating traditional skills and recognising the contribution farmers made to society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Witty, the 2025 World Conventional Ploughing Champion, said success in the sport required considerable time, dedication and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-798815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}