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.
The ploughmen dug straight furrows with their vintage tractors (Ben Birchall/PA)
Competitors check the plough angle (Ben Birchall/PA)
More than 250 ploughmen and women from all over Britain took part (Ben Birchall/PA)
Wet weather made turning heavy traction engines difficult in the soft mud (Ben Birchall/PA)
A competitor wrestles with his plough (Ben Birchall/PA)
A ploughman adjusts the angle of his machine (Ben Birchall/PA)
Heavy horses manoeuvre neatly at the end of a furrow (Ben Birchall/PA)
