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.

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.

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.

Plans were unveiled today for a broiler unit housing up to 85,000 chickens at a farm which is expanding in Prees.

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.

A farm near Market Drayton has been named as one of four farms in the regional finals of a national competition.

Exciting new farming techniques which will see food waste used to generate fuel and electricity will be developed at Shropshire’s only university after £100,000 of funding was secured.

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 [...]

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.

The press is filled with information regarding the property market, some of it positive, some of it not quite so optimistic.

Rural development in Shropshire has undergone various planning policy changes over the past two years.

There are many ways we endeavour to improve habitat for wildlife and farm birds in particular.

The seasons move on and this year’s April showers are so cold. These frosts have slowed the early growth which the crops were showing. The grass was starting to grow in front of some of our sheep, but now they are making a real mark in it.

All stock farmers know that they are merely a blink away from some unexpected mishap.

In recent times there has been much talk of changes in the structure of the mobile telecoms industry and in particular the merger of several of the main companies into larger commercial units.

The chairman of the National Farmers Union in Shropshire today said he was ‘disappointed’ a judicial review had been granted following protests against plans for a trial cull of badgers to control the spread of TB in livestock.

April has really been a very successful month for Shropshire YFC members, the biggest achievement being us taking home the West Midlands Area YFC Sports and Speaking Competition Cup.

‘Dual use’ in connection to the Single Payment Scheme (SPS) is the phrase used to describe the situation where separate parties claim SPS and Agri-Environment Schemes (Stewardship) on the same land.

A forward-thinking farmer has installed one of Britain’s biggest solar panel operations in Shropshire after a £1.2m investment.

Early on Saturday, March 24, a group of 21 second year agriculture learners met at Walford – with bags packed and passports in hand – ready for the marathon trip to Taratahi College on the North Island of New Zealand.

The Government’s commitment to sustainability has now thoroughly permeated the UK property sector. First we had the Localism Bill and National Policy Framework for planning. Now we have the Energy Act 2011 which has far-reaching implications for UK property.

Now that Shropshire is officially a drought area, the question arises – who should get priority for the water?