NZ Ploughing Association Inc.

World Ploughing Contest

New Zealand has had considerable success at World Ploughing Championships over the years and in 2010 hosted the World Ploughing Championships in Methven with local man Bruce Redmond winning the World Championship Conventional Ploughing and  Paul Henson coming from 10th position in the reversible stubble contest to 2nd in the reversible grasslands contest, giving him a surprise placement of 3rd over all.

57TH WORLD PLOUGHING CONTEST RESULTS:

Conventional

1. Bruce Redmond               New Zealand       425.5 points

2. Andrew Mitchell Jnr          Scotland               404 points

3. Samuel Gill                       Northern Ireland  381 points

Reversible

1. Fabien Landre                  France                   433 points

2. Thomas Cochrane          Northern Ireland  391 points

3. Paul Henson                    New Zealand       381 points

New Zealand has also had impressive success in previous World Ploughing Championships:

Name                    Placing       Year        Host Country

Alan Magson        2nd              1961        France
Alan Wallace        2nd              1971        England
John Thornton     3rd               1977        Holland
Alan Wallace        1st                1981       Ireland
Ian Miller               1st                1982       Australia
Elvery Hunt           2nd               1982       Australia
Bruce Redmond  3rd               1995        Kenya
Roger Jordan       2nd              1997        Australia

Bruce Redmond 1st   Conventional      2010      New Zealand

Paul Henson       3rd  Reversible           2010      New Zealand

In addition, another twenty-four competitors have achieved a place in the top ten.

The following is some information about the the World Ploughing Organisation:
Over 30 countries are affiliated to the WPO with each country obligated to pay an annual affiliation fee.
The first ploughing championship of the WPO was held in Canada in 1953.
WPO encourages countries to be part of the organisation to improve the skill of ploughing throughout the world.
The Objectives of WPO are as follows:-
•    To promote the annual World Ploughing Championships
•    Foster, preserve the art and improve the skill of ploughing the land
•    To provide demonstration work and trade displays
•    To urge the development, with the adoption of improved techniques that aids to man, in all branches of agriculture
•    To foster a vigorous spirit of co-operation and enterprise in producing food for an increasing world population
•    By these means to encourage fellowship and understanding amongst the people of all nations
•    To support and co-operate with bodies or associations in the furtherance of these objects

The World Event has two championship classes, using either a Reversible or a Conventional plough. Each country is entitled to enter a competitor in each class of the contest.
New Zealand has previously organised four very successful world events (1967, 1980, 1994 and 2010) with the WPO recently allocating the world event to New Zealand in 2025.