Welcome to the 2010 Hastings County Farm Show and Plowing Match!
Welcome to the 2010 Hastings County Plowing Match and Farm Show.
We are pleased to celebrate our 22nd annual agricultural event in the Township of Tyendinaga with our host farm families; Robert & April Jarrell & Family. The show site is located on the Robinson Farm on Blessington Road Wednesday, August 18th and Thursday, August 19th.
More than 250 exhibitors of agriculture’s latest products, services and equipment can be found in the tented city, along with an expanded Antique Display where working and static exhibits feature everything from restored antique tractors and equipment to small farm tools and other farm related items.
An antique tractor parade is also scheduled for each day of the show.
And this year the Hastings County Plowing Match and Farm Show Committee has planned some new demonstrations featuring mold board plows
And be sure to visit our plowing fields. Come out and watch our novice plowers in the 4H Plowing Club or encourage our Queen of the Furrow Contestants as they plow during opening day, with the completion of the Queen of the Furrow Competition at noon on the second day of the show. This event concludes with the crowning of the new Hastings County Queen of the Furrow.
Special Event plowing is a fun event that features plowing competition between local dignitaries. Even local media personalities compete for the perfect furrow.
All plowing events during the two-day show are located next to the tented city. Aspiring and seasoned plowmen and women compete in the horse, antique tractor or regular tractor plowing classes.
And a visit to the woodlot display is a must-see for all stewards-of-the-land with an assortment of woodlot related static and working displays.
Our ever-popular ladies program promises to have another full program designed to interest everyone. Local crafters and artisans use this event to offer their quality merchandise to you. And all children visiting the show are encouraged to spend some fun-time creating crafts of their own in the children’s tent.
At this time, I would like to thank the Hastings County Plowing Match and Farm Show Committee and all our great volunteers for all their hard work to organize this great show.
And I’d also like to thank the Jarrell families for hosting the match and for all the hard work that they’ve done to help make this show a great success.
I also want to thank the Township of Tyendinaga for their support during the past year and a special thanks to our exhibitors and plowmen that have followed our Show to the various match sites in Hastings County.
And I wish to thank our visitors for their continued support to make this agricultural event so successful. It encourages us all to continue in our tradition, “Produced for farmers, by farmers.”
So come on out and have a great time at the match. See you all there at the Jarrell Farm.
Steve Elsey,
Hastings County Plowing Match and Farm Show President