On Thursday, 2 October 1969, Malcolm White of Hardington Moor excelled in the Young Farmers’ annual ploughing championships held at Home Farm, Kings Weston, winning the Gulf silver cup and qualifying for the national ploughing championship in 1970.[1]

Malcolm was participating in a tradition of farming competitions that, locally, goes back at least as far as the Labourers’ Friend Society formed at Ilminster in 1832 and the Yeovil Agricultural Society formed the following year.

References

[1] Cheddar Valley Gazette, 10 October 1969, p.10.