Shropshire’s annual agricultural extravaganza will be held in May 2011 – and is set to impress, organisers have revealed.  

If you’ve been busy weeding the garden and you’re having a bit of a moan about your aching back, spare a thought for a team of farm workers in Shenstone who have just finished weeding 140 acres by hand!  

With a dairy sector under increasing pressure to be more efficient often with reducing returns, help is now at hand with 80% funded Dairy Improvement Plans developed to improve business sustainability.  

A global animal feed company whose UK headquarters are based in Stamford, Lincolnshire has been giving local students a helping hand with their work.  

FarmGem, the Southwell, East Midlands based sprayer specialist, will be exhibiting a range of trailed and mounted sprayers including the launch of a new Diamond 2500 litre 12-20-24 metre trailed sprayer, a Fast-Trac 2000 litre 12-20-24 metre demount machine and a small vertical folding boom sprayer.  

A rural conference held on Tuesday 26th January 2010 by East Midlands Development Agency (emda) attracted over 200 business representatives to Newark Showground who were keen to find out more about the financial support on offer to farmers, foresters, growers and the food sector in the region.  

FarmGEM, the newly formed agricultural and horticultural sprayer specialist which will launch its first trailed and mounted machines at LAMMA (Lincolnshire Agricultural Machinery Manufacturers Association) show in January 2010, has announced the first phase of its UK dealership appointments.  

A Coventry primary school has been awarded new flower beds after winning a gardening competition run by Whitefriars Housing Group.  

FarmGEM may be a new name in agricultural sprayers but the men behind the company about to hit the market have distinguished pedigrees and knowledge in this specialist farm machinery sector.  

Nick Padwick, one of the leading lights in the farming industry, took home the overall title, Farmers Weekly Farmer of the Year at the 2009 Farmers Weekly Awards held at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel.  

Rural and business leaders are holding major talks on understanding the full impact of the recession on rural communities and ways of driving business investment right to the heart of rural England.  

Farmers have been warned to make sure they understand their legal position after a recent spate of attacks by cows on walkers.  

£220,000 worth of funding will be available this winter for farmers, foresters and growers in the East Midlands it was announced today (17th August).  

Game-keepers in Burton-upon-Trent are invited to a special workshop designed to help them develop their businesses.  

Farming families in the West Midlands region are being encouraged to ensure their workplaces don’t become playgrounds for their children during the school holidays.  

Rural businesses across the West Midlands are set to reap the benefits of new knowledge transfer, skills and training opportunities being offered as part of a £5.4 million regional initiative.  

East Midlands Development Agency (emda) has today announced that there is more flexibility in how it can allocate funds through the region’s Rural Development Programmme for England (RDPE) to help farmers, foresters and horticulturalists beat the recession  

A new scheme is set to provide £900,000 for farmers, horticulturalists, foresters and people working in land management to help them develop their skills.  

An ambitious plan to develop a large central crop storage facility in the East Midlands has moved a step closer, with a £1.5m grant award from the Rural Development Programme for England (RDPE), managed in the region by East Midlands Development Agency (emda).  

Landowners who use pesticides and don’t read what’s on the tin could face heavy penalties under the Single Farm Payment system, a Shropshire agricultural lawyer has warned.  

A £1.253 million scheme will be launched today by the East Midlands Development Agency (emda), the Peak District National Park Authority and the Derby and Derbyshire Economic Partnership (DDEP) to support rural businesses and communities  

Farmers have been given a credit lifeline after the NFU successfully lobbied for the sector to be included in the Enterprise Finance Guarantee Scheme.