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

Where have all the cows gone?

Farming chiefs in Shropshire and Mid Wales have hit out at a dairy firm’s decision to cut by two pence a litre the amount farmers are paid for milk – saying they are now selling it for less than it costs to produce.

Dairy Crest today announced plans to axe almost 500 jobs in the UK but said positions at its plant in Shropshire were safe.

A herd of 84 cows belonging to a farmer from Shropshire has been declared the best producer of milk in the UK – and that’s official.

Up to 40 dairy farms from across the Midlands have been plunged into crisis after a major milk buyer and processor went bust, owing them thousands of pounds each.

Even after my very best attempts at persuasion, the taxi driver who dropped me at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham towards the end of last year remained totally unconvinced that nearly 200 dairy animals, including milking cows, could be found within those exhibition halls.

Union officials today said they were confident the proposed £280 million sale of Britain’s biggest fresh milk supplier to dairy giant Muller would not lead to job losses.

Dairy giant Müller is set to cut the price it pays farmers for milk.

A major expansion at dairy giant Muller’s Market Drayton factory has been given the go-ahead – potentially creating up to 300 new jobs.

A herd of camels in the scorched Arabian desert is being milked using equipment made in the rolling countryside of Shropshire.

Dairy farmers could be given the power to negotiate better contracts with milk buyers under plans backed by MEPs on the European Parliament’s agriculture committee.