January
15th- Practice/ Practice

February
5th- Reshuffle- AGM
6th- Bleary 80th Anniversary Dinner Dance, Brownlow House, Lurgan
19th- Cinema Visit
27th- Mullahead Ploughing Match

March
5th- King Fu
12th- 80th Anniversary Event- Table Quiz & Stew Night @7.45pm
19/20th- Mourne Adventure
23rd- County Meeting- Collone Hall
26th- Let Us Entertain You- Exchange Meeting; Moneyrea

April
2nd- No meeting; Good Friday
16th- Armagh County Committee Disco; Farmers & Farm Animals Theme
17th- AGM & Conference; Armagh City Hotel

May
1st- Bleary YFC Annual BBQ & Dance
7th- Red. Green, Go- Go Karting

June
5th- 80th Anniversary Its A Knockout at Lurgan Show

July
30th-80th Anniversary Lads & Lassies Tractor Road Run

August
20th- Annual Treasure Hunt & BBQ



COMPETITIONS

Ulster Young Farmer
Home Management
Photographic Competition
Arts Festival; Craigavon
Craft, Art Competion
Northern Ireland Quiz
Demonstration Comp
Arts Festival Gala;Londonderry
Girls Five A Side Football
Tug-o-war
Fencing Competition
Machinery Handling
Build It Challenge
Raft Race
Choir Festival
Beef, Sheep, Diary Stockjudging
Soil Assessment

getting up at 7am is a lie-in

your alarm clock is set to farming today, even though you hate it now

you've got the RPA's number on speed dail in your phone

you've run over your own cat in a tractor (but you dont care)

when someone says they live on an estate you think of fields and woods rather than a housing development

you tut at people in tesco buying danish bacon and french bread

you don't sit down to a single hot meal in august

you fall asleep with-in 3 minutes of sitting down in front of the t.v

your sun tan ends just above the elbow in the summer

you've had a live lamb in your aga

you get more letters from DEFRA than you do from friends and family

you only take the kids to the seaside when it rains

your hair turns grey at 21

a good holiday is a weeked in wales when it rains with an ice cream

you can't drive along a road anywhere in britain without studying everyone else's crop's and livestock

drilling does not mean putting holes through interior walls

dress sense means cutting down on nitrogen applications

your 4x4 acctually goes off road

you get frustrated by people calling straw "hay"

You get frustrated by people calling hay "straw"

your ideal holiday is to visit other peoples farms

your hands look like they are made with the same material as your boots

your bag on your hoover is full of grain from july to september

the faint (but agreeable) smell of disel never leaves you

you most valued possession is your pen knife

track and field has nothing to do with athletics

a lamb follows the children into the kitchen and no one thinks its unusal

you confidently walk arround the supermarket in wellies

your lawn include hundreds of cattle hoof prints

you open a bale and discover an old mobile phone

you drive your new telehandler repeatedly past your neighbour's yard until someone appears

you feel naked without baler twine in your pocket

you know your a farmer when....................

Your front carpet is muddier than your drive.

you have animals living in buildings more expensive than your house.

You can remeber fertiliser rate seeding rate herbicide rate and yields on a farm you leased 10 years ago but cannot recall your wifes birthday.

You need a *licence* before leaving the house.

Your dog rides in your truck more than your wife.

You fibbed to a mechanic about how often you greased a piece of machinery.

Your whole family falls instantly silent when the weather comes on the news.

You cant help picking up stones and throwing them to the edge of the field.

If you see a bit of string in a feild you pick it up and put it in your pocket.

You put a jacket on over your overalls to look smart.

You take an instant dislike to anyone wearing a suit walking into your farmyard.

You use baler twine as a dog lead.

You talk to every cow you see even if its not your own.

Your daughters dont bring new boyfreinds home for fear of dad asking them if they can drive a tractor.

You have a friendly rivalry with the farmer next door.