The 2018 International Plowing match and Rural Expo wrapped up Saturday in Pain Court and despite some showers it was a huge success.
Thousands showed up on the final day and they came hungry.
There was a big pancake breakfast to get the day started, and with free admission for kids they served a lot of pancakes.
Later, after they worked up an appetite again, 1,125 people jammed into the big tent to eat corn on the cob and establish an IPM record for the most people eating a cob of corn at the same time.
Derika Nauta of Tavistock was named the Queen of the Furrow at the Gala on Friday night and made the rounds Saturday showing off her new title.
At the closing ceremonies, Co-chair Leon Leclair thanked the over 1,000 volunteers who stepped up and pointed out “the rural-urban divide doesn’t exist here in Chatham-Kent. Half our executive team members are urban, and the other half are rural.”
Landowner Jean Marie Laprise presented the hosts of the 2019 event in West Nippising with the traditional gift of local fertile soil.
