Today at the championships

9am - Trade machinery and livestock exhibition opens. Events: Land Rover Terrapod; vintage exhibition; threshing.

9am - Trade machinery and livestock exhibition opens. Events: Land Rover Terrapod; vintage exhibition; threshing.

10am - ICA demonstration: patchwork; entertainment on bandstand - Uisce Beatha.

10.30am - National ploughing classes begin: supreme senior conventional tractor class (day two); standard 3 furrow; standard 3 furrow reversible; visitors (day two); special horse class; vintage, single furrow vintage mounted; Kverneland reversible test.

11am - Workshop and racing interviews hosted by Hector O'hEochagain; Our Food - Your Way! road show by Agri Aware; ICA talk - falls prevention and bone health by Dr Emer Ahearne; entertainment on bandstand - Topflight Austrian Schuhplattlers; Stihl Timbersports demonstrations.

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Noon - ICA environmental talk - Dr Laura Burke; entertainment on bandstand - Eimear Lalor.

12.30pm - Fashion show.

1pm - ICA demonstration - Calico embroidery pictures.

1.30pm - Entertainment on bandstand - Topflight Austrian Schuhplattlers; Our Food - Your Way! road show.

2pm - ICA talk - wills and succession by John Hickey, Solicitor; Workshop and racing interviews hosted by Hector O'hEochagain.

2.30pm - Ploughing competitions finish; entertainment on bandstand - Two of a Kind.

3pm - Fashion Show; ICA talk - osteoporosis and falls prevention by Donal Carroll; bandstand - The Duets.

4pm - Workshop and racing interviews.

4.45pm - Entertainment on bandstand - PJ Murrihy.

6pm - Plough competition results announced.

6.30pm - closedown.

9pm - Competitors' banquet and presentation of trophies in Newpark Hotel, Kilkenny (ticket holders only)