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.
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...
Finnish PM wades into Milk War
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 obj...
Danish economists content to kill off small farms
The Danish government’s new agricultural platform, aimed at helping farmers, has been questioned by industry experts who see the move as potentially d...
Norway irks its farmers, but collapse of global talks appeases
Last week’s collapse of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) talks in Geneva is causing soul searching among governments and NGOs, but was the cause of ...
Iceland tries its hand at Hemp
Hemp cultivation has begun in Iceland under an experimental programme to see if it can grow successfully in Iceland’s climate, according to Iceland Re...