Iceland drops import duty on EU farm produce
Further liberalization on the trade in agricultural products with the EU block will result in duty free importation of most farm produce, reducing the...
Illegal fertiliser network causes stink
Dozens of Danish farmers have being purchasing illegal fertiliser and crop spray from a Jutland group smuggling in the products from Germany.
Evidence suggests Vikings grew grain in south Greenland
Archaeologists from the Danish national museum have finally succeeded in confirming that Erik the Red and his people could indeed brew beer in Greenla...
Higher subsidies for lower prices ‘a good idea’
Iceland’s ruling Social Democrats would support increasing support to the country’s farmers if it means lower prices for consumers, a part...
EU entry could have good and bad impacts on Icelandic food supply
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 massi...
Icelandic farmer believes aluminium smelter killed his sheep
“She couldn’t feed herself any more and died in the end [clogged with] mucous,” says Sigurbjorn Hjaltason, farmer and former Kjosahr...
Denmark to review fertiliser laws after Oslo bomb
Denmark’s justice minister has pledged to review the country’s regulations on buying artificial fertiliser, in the hope of preventing terrorist from m...
Closed case could be revisited after farmer’s suspicious death
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 a...