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In pictures: Heavy horses and steam engines at National Ploughing Championships

More than 250 ploughmen and women took part.

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A ploughman works his way along the furrows

Soggy weather failed to dampen the spirits of more than 250 ploughmen and women who took part in the 68th British National Ploughing Championships at Austrey, near Atherstone, in Warwickshire.

Highly-skilled ploughmen competed with vintage tractors, steam engines and heavy horses.

68th British National Ploughing Championships
The ploughmen dug straight furrows with their vintage tractors (Ben Birchall/PA)
68th British National Ploughing Championships & Country Festival
The soggy weather caused slippery problems for a steam traction engine (Ben Birchall/PA)
68th British National Ploughing Championships
Competitors check the plough angle (Ben Birchall/PA)
68th British National Ploughing Championships
The ploughmen and women created neat turns in the earth (Ben Birchall/PA)
68th British National Ploughing Championships
More than 250 ploughmen and women from all over Britain took part (Ben Birchall/PA)
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Steam ploughs work the fields (Ben Birchall/PA)
68th British National Ploughing Championships
Wet weather made turning heavy traction engines difficult in the soft mud (Ben Birchall/PA)
68th British National Ploughing Championships
Horses turn around at the end of the furrows (Ben Birchall/PA)
68th British National Ploughing Championship
A competitor wrestles with his plough (Ben Birchall/PA)
68th British National Ploughing Championships
Ploughmen in tracked vehicles work the furrows (Ben Birchall/PA)
68th British National Ploughing Championships
A ploughman adjusts the angle of his machine (Ben Birchall/PA)
68th British National Ploughing Championships
Ploughmen operated a number of vintage vehicles (Ben Birchall/PA)
68th British National Ploughing Championships
Heavy horses manoeuvre neatly at the end of a furrow (Ben Birchall/PA)
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