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.

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.

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.

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.

I am currently sorting out the arrangements for Beef Expo at the Three Counties showground in Malvern on May 24. It’s a great venue for a great event.

Where have all the cows gone?

A new five-model range of six-cylinder tractors will be unveiled at Grassland UK in Somerset on Thursday as distributor AgriArgo UK prepares to replace the popular McCormick XTX and TTX machines.

While researching for my Masters dissertation in Design Management with Staffordshire University, I have explored the benefits of Care Farming to people with farming and horticultural connections and how the Women’s Food & Farming Union can seize opportunities to reach out to local communities to provide a much- needed service by identifying and fulfilling the [...]