While we start to enjoy the summer at last, unfortunately it’s arrived a little too late for our local asparagus growers, Trevor and Caroline Lee of Quatt, Bridgnorth.

Profits at Dairy Crest’s Shropshire operation increased by 18 per cent despite the company making overall losses of £10.1 million.

More local food please, we’re British – that’s the message from Shropshire shoppers as the NFU launches a new campaign to highlight farming’s contribution to the country.

As the preferred route corridor announcement is expected for the Mid Wales Connection Project at any time from National Grid, affected property owners and occupiers may need to act to safeguard rights to compensation.

Britain’s farmers are seeing a boom in business despite the economic storm, new figures showed today.

Hundreds of objections have flooded in from animal welfare campaigners across Britain opposing plans for six poultry units have been made – but they won’t affect the final decision.

There is government drive to source an additional two million tonnes of wood from undermanaged woodlands in England, writes Martin Jones.

As May 26 draws ever closer, final licks of paint have been applied and finishing touches are being made to the preparations for the Shropshire County Show to accommodate the record levels of livestock which will grace the show rings at the Berwick Road site at Shrewsbury.

With some areas having experienced the wettest April since 1910 and unseasonably cold temperatures, grazing management has thrown up some challenges in the last few weeks.

Shropshire’s Young Farmers’ Clubs will display the best in British farming at their annual rally next month.

If you grow potatoes on an allotment, you could sign up to be a blight monitor, looking out for signs of the disease and sending in samples.

Pig producers, rightly, spend a lot of time looking at breeding herd performance but grower and finisher herds have a lot of potential for better profitability too.