Today at the championships: what's on

9am - Trade machinery and livestock exhibition opens

9am- Trade machinery and livestock exhibition opens. Events: European Commission forums; Land Rover terrapod; vintage exhibition; threshing.

10am- ICA demonstrations: storytelling by Attracta and Paddy Heeney. Entertainment on bandstand: Meet the Feckers.

10.30am- National ploughing classes begin: supreme senior conventional tractor class (day one); junior; farmerette; visitors (day one); senior horse class; senior reversible; vintage; two furrow mounted; log digging.

11am- Irish championships including official judge (continued at 2pm). Workshop in Horse Racing Ireland marquee hosted by Hector Ó hEochagain; ICA demonstrations: Barnardos; Neven Maguire cookery demonstration: Bord Bia stand. Entertainment on bandstand: Knock Hill Billys.

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11am- Seminar in NPA conference centre (stand M314a): Environmental issues in agriculture - keynote speaker Michael Hamell,

DG Environmental; Market situation for beef and veal at EU level - keynote speaker Manuel Florez Droop, DG AGRI; Chairman: Martin Territt, director, European Commission representation in Ireland.

Noon- ICA demonstrations: flower arranging by Joan Ennis. Entertainment on bandstand: Eimer Dunne Ensemble.

12.30pm- Fashion show; Neven Maguire cookery demonstration: Bord Bia stand.

1pm- ICA demonstrations: Historical Society of Tullamore, Stephen McNeill. Entertainment on bandstand: PJ Murrihy.

2pm- Irish championships (continued); ICA demonstrations: making a will/inheritance tax, by Lucy Harnet; Neven Maguire demonstration: Bord Bia stand. Entertainment on bandstand: Duets.

2.30pm- Ploughing competitions finish; workshop in Horse Racing Ireland marquee, hosted by Hector Ó hEochagain.

3.00pm- ICA demonstrations - flower arranging by Joan Ennis; fashion show: most appropriately dressed couple. Entertainment on bandstand: Knock Hill Billys.

3.30pm- Neven Maguire demonstration: Bord Bia stand.

4pm- ICA demonstrations: bog oak by Betty O'Gorman. Bandstand: Declan Nerney.

4.30 pm- Workshop in Horse Racing Ireland marquee hosted by Hector Ó hEochagain.

5pm- Entertainment on bandstand: PJ Murrihy.

6pm- Ploughing competitions results announced.

6.30pm- ClosePloughing results for Tuesday 25th September