Fair Deal For Farmers: Shropshire Star campaign to support agriculture
The Shropshire Star has launched a major campaign in which we demand a Fair Deal for Farmers.
We aim to highlight the importance of agriculture to our region – and enable you to support businesses that sell produce grown or reared on our fields.
Scores of shops, pubs and restaurants help our rural economy by buying from farmers in Shropshire and Mid Wales.
Farms are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of the direct relationship between themselves and customers.
Today the Shropshire Star launches a new online directory in which we will list businesses that have a direct relationship with farms in the region.
See our directory of businesses that support our regions farmers at shropshirestar.com/farmers
Keep up with all of the campaign news at shropshirestar.com/fair-deal-for-farmers
We will highlight the world-class produce that comes from our farms and that ensures our restaurants and shops can offer guaranteed top quality.
And we will continue to highlight the ongoing efforts to ensure farmers, who have battled issues including low milk prices and TB in cattle, receive a fair deal for their produce.
Businesses who back our farmers will be able to display a Fair Deal for Farmers symbol, highlighting the fact they stock local produce with known provenance.
Richard Yates, chairman of Shropshire's branch of the National Farmers' Union, today backed the campaign. The farmer, of Middleton Scriven, near Bridgnorth, said people are now far more conscious about what they eat and the emphasis on fresh, local produce presents an exciting opportunity for farmers in the county, as people increasingly turn to products closer to home.
Shropshire Star editor Martin Wright said: "We are proud to launch this campaign and hope it will help farmers, businesses and customers. We aim to make a real difference."
Join our campaign – and highlight how you place the produce of Shropshire and Mid Wales in the shop window.
We have launched a directory of businesses that support our region's farmers - see it at shropshirestar.com/farmers
You might be a butcher, baker, deli or even a florist. You may run a restaurant, pub or cafe. Or you may sell your wares at fairs or farmers markets.
As long as you use produce made by farmers in our region, you can be included.
The Shropshire Star will create an online directory of businesses that support our farmers.
And we will send you a Fair Deal for Farmers window sticker that you can display to your customers.
It is easy to get involved:
Send an email to us at: newsroom@shropshirestar.co.uk
Write to: Fair Deal, Shropshire Star, Ketley, Telford TF1 5HU
We need to know your name, the name of your business and its address and how you support farmers – please also name farms you support and the produce you either sell or serve up.
