Dozens of Danish farmers have being purchasing illegal fertiliser and crop spray from a Jutland group smuggling in the products from Germany. Read the full story

Archaeologists from the Danish national museum have finally succeeded in confirming that Erik the Red and his people could indeed brew beer in Greenland when they lived there. Read the full story

Iceland’s ruling Social Democrats would support increasing support to the country’s farmers if it means lower prices for consumers, a party MP told parliament. Read the full story

The price of some foodstuffs in Iceland could drop by half if the country enters the EU. As a result state subsidies to farmers would need to be massively increased if domestic agriculture was to remain competitive. Read the full story

“She couldn’t feed herself any more and died in the end [clogged with] mucous,” says Sigurbjorn Hjaltason, farmer and former Kjosahreppur council leader. Read the full story

Denmark’s justice minister has pledged to review the country’s regulations on buying artificial fertiliser, in the hope of preventing terrorist from making bombs like the one that devastated Oslo last week. Read the full story

Police in southern Sweden are investigating a possible link between a farmer who was found dead last Friday and the mysterious deaths of his brother and sister-in-law two years ago. Read the full story

Icelandic farmers have joined the debate on food imports and government hand-outs. They argue that import tariffs and quotas on agricultural products are actually saving Icelanders money. The OECD disagrees. Read the full story

Farmers in southern Greenland have spoken about the benefits of global warming, as the biggest block of ice since the sixties breaks off the country’s northwest coast. According to researchers at a US university, an ice sheet measuring 260-sq kilometres – the largest since 1962 – detached itself from the Petermann Glacier in Greenland this week. Read the full story

Matti Vanhanen, the Finnish Prime Minister, has declared that he will personally boycott the chain of grocery stores operated by the S chain as an objection to their decision to phase out from some of their stores milk produced by the country’s largest dairy organisation, Valio. Read the full story