plowing match

1. noun, a rural fair featuring plowing competitions, farm machinery, demonstrations, and new product displays, as well as various forms of entertainment (COD); 2. attributive

1.
“Yeah. Of course the plowing matches are very important on the Island.”

“There’s still a fairly good bit of competition in our local plowing matches, and I would suggest now that perhaps the county match would be of equal size.”

“I’ve been around a little bit in the plowing matches.”

“We had a barbecue … for boys or for men who plowed 25 years or more in the International Plowing Match.”

“Oh, this was a plowing match here on the Island we had two years ago with the International.”

“I went for the plowing matches here too, and I went to Peterbrough, was international.”

“At one of the International Plowing Matches in Kitchener, a lady come up to me and she says ‘I know that horse. Where did you get it?'”

2.
“They played accordion. They had plowing match banquets that they’d go in.”