plough

[laughs] What do you call it when a farmhand puts cowboy clothes on his salad? Ranch dressing.

[laughs] What do you call a dumb plow animal that always contradicts itself? An oxy-moron.

[laughs] I got a job at a farm, but I resigned because they didn't have horses.

I wanted something more stable.

[laughs] I asked my friend why he gave up his career as a farmer.

He said he chose the wrong field.

[laughs] How does a tractor get its paperwork done? It plows through it.

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So the idea that patriarchy is, you know, forever is, is, is just not true.

But e- as, as recently as 2013, um, a paper by Alsina, Giuliani, and Nunn called On the Origins of Gender Roles: Women and the Plow tested the Ezra Boserup's thesis and found it held, right? So 40-odd years later, they tested the assumptions, they looked at the evidence, and decided that it held up.

Uh, more remarkably [chuckles], 2026, this year, right? A Vietnamese professor, Trung Gia Vu, wrote a paper revisiting the ancient origins of gender inequality.

This, uh, professor is now based at Loughborough University in the UK, and he tested it using a kind of Popperian methodology.

John Deere.

Let me see if I can find [laughs] the Wikipedia on John Deere, the person.

All right.

El inventor.

We don't say the floor, and we don't say the ground.

We say the bottom.

¿Puedes tocar el suelo? I can't touch the bottom.

Tocar fondo.

and reposeful, but Dusty the Combine Harvester's entire day had consisted of one big nap.

What did you do all day, Dusty? Rakey the Plow questioned, upon realizing that Dusty had remained in the barn all day.

Dusty replied, It was quite

marvellous,

back out of their parking

spots into the light.

How is your night patrol going, Bonnie? Rakey the Plow asked politely.

Bonnie smiled and sat on her bottom obediently as she replied, It's going very

Moreover, it has lately been shown that variations in temperature are one of the chief causes of organic variation.

Morgan and Plough, for example, have discovered that when a certain fly, called the Drosophila, is subjected to extremes of heat or cold, the offspring show an unusually strong tendency to differ from the parents.

Hence, the climatic variability of the interior of large continents in temperate latitudes provides new forms of life and then selects some of them for preservation.

The fossils found in the rocks of the Earth's crust support this view.

Supply Chain Ireland Podcast with Kevin Byrne.

Supply Chain Ireland Podcast at the National Ploughing Championships 2026.

Out and about with Supply Chain Ireland Podcast.

And yes indeed, you're very welcome along to Supply Chain Ireland podcast coming to you from the National Ploughing Championships 2026 here in Screggan in County Offaly.

For most of the year, this is just a few fields here in Screggan in County Offaly, but for three days in September, it becomes something very different.

Thousands of people come through the gates of the National Ploughing Championships.

Farmers, families, machinery, manufacturers, engineers, technology companies, businesses, politicians and just about everything in between.

And this year, we're delighted to say we're at the Ploughing Championships.

And in the fair territory to make the catch.

Two men away as Plough stays at first base, and it brings up Joe Christopher, who plied out to center field his first time up.

Joe batting .263 with two home runs and 24 runs vetted in.

No score in this ballgame.