Farmers

The cost for diesel fuel — used by farmers and truckers to supply Americans with products they need — is up 75 percent from last year. 

CALGARY, Alberta (AP) – Canadian poultry farmers are facing fear and stress as a highly pathogenic strain of H5N1 avian influenza is currently circulating in both wild and domestic flocks across North America.

Food shortages are on the cards for Britain due to the spiking cost of farming thanks in part to the ongoing crisis in Ukraine.

LISBON, Portugal (AP) – High energy costs are stoking unrest in parts of Europe, with Spain deploying more than 23,000 police officers amid a truckers’ strike Friday and farmers in France and Greece snarling traffic with their protests.

Farmers, cattle-breeders, and hunters descended Sunday on the Spanish capital of Madrid to protest the government’s green agenda.

President Joe Biden is offering federal aid in the form of a $1 billion package to ranchers, farmers, and independent processors even as he reserves the largest protections for the four meatpacking corporations that dominate the market.

Jihadist Fulani terrorists killed at least 45 largely Christian Tiv farmers in central Nigeria’s Nasarawa state in recent days, Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari confirmed Tuesday.

Vice President Kamala Harris and the White House have announced that American corporations and other groups that have signed on to her “call to action” to stop the ongoing surge of migrants from Central America by pouring money into the Guatemalan, El Salvadoran, and Honduran economies.

India’s government announced Friday it would repeal three “farmers laws” passed last year to reform the country’s agricultural sector after they prompted a year of protests and unrest, the Press Trust of India (PTI) reported.

Citizens are preparing for Thanksgiving and noticing higher prices or limited stock, even when it comes to turkey. 

California Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom’s embrace of “climate change” as an existential threat has led to policies that destroy farms in a state that feeds more Americans than any other.

The British government may seek to impose carbon taxes on the food industry which could see the price of meat and dairy climb even further in a bid to tackle supposedly man-made climate change.

Farmers stand to be hit hard by Biden’s supply chain crisis if they are unable to get the equipment they need before harvest time.

The Biden administration wants loan forgiveness for farmers based on race and claims there are more white farmers because of racism.

The University of Delaware is promoting a “Northeast Queer Farmer Wellness Microgrant program” to support “queer and trans farmers” through taxpayer-funded grants.

President Joe Biden is advancing an executive order that calls for the percentage of U.S. land being off-limits from 13% to 30% by 2030.

Farmers who have been hurt by Democrat California Gov. Newsom’s water policies are ready to vote yes in the September 14 recall election.

As much of the American West faces widespread droughts, farmers and ranchers in central Arizona bear the brunt. They face crop losses and thinner cows as irrigation canals dry.

Swedish farmers working with animals say they have been forced to hire security companies to watch over their farms after threats from animal rights extremists.

President Joe Biden’s plan to give racial reparations to black farmers suffered another legal blow Thursday when a federal judge ruled that part of his coronavirus law violates the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution.

A federal judge issued a temporary restraining order halting President Joe Biden’s $4 billion loan forgiveness program for minority farmers.

Farmers are unhappy with the prospect of Biden’s EPA reversing Trump’s protections from harsh water regulations under the Clean Water Act.

 Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller, a Republican, sued the Biden administration Monday, alleging the administration’s Department of Agriculture discriminated against white farmers.

The massive $1.9 trillion spending package being considered by the Senate includes over $1 billion for “socially disadvantaged farmers” and $5 million for commissions to study racial equity issues inside the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Police in India’s capital, New Delhi, have arrested an Indian woman for editing a document promoted by the Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg in support of India’s ongoing farmers’ protests. Police arrested Disha Ravi, 22, over the weekend in Bengaluru,

An English sheep farmer was horrified to find a gang of “Asian” men slitting the throat of a pregnant ewe in broad daylight near a public footpath. 

Indian government ministers are flocking to an Indian-made Twitter rival named Koo after the U.S.-based Twitter upset New Delhi by failing to comply with an order to ban certain accounts this week.

Twitter said on Wednesday it would not fully comply with an Indian government order to suspend hundreds of accounts accused by New Delhi of spreading misinformation and inciting violence in the nation’s ongoing farmers’ protests. It made the statement after blocking over 500 accounts last week.

India’s foreign ministry on Wednesday denounced “vested interest groups” for attempting to impose their agenda on farmers’ protests in New Delhi after Western celebrities commented on the demonstrations via social media this week.

Farmers’ protests in the Indian national capital, Delhi, turned deadly Tuesday after a farmer turned over his tractor and died.

British police reportedly threatened to fine families for buying milk from a farm stand and told patrons to take their business to supermarkets in order to keep in line with coronavirus restrictions.

Fishermen are not the only Britons who will lose out in the reportedly imminent Brexit deal, with Boris Johnson acquiescing to the bloc locking seed potato farmers out of its markets.

An estimated 65,000 farmers gathered on the outskirts of India’s national capital, New Delhi, on Tuesday to protest three new agricultural laws they say undermine their labor rights, the Times of India reported.

Hundreds of unionized farmers and their supporters in India blocked roads and highways in Punjab on Tuesday, paralyzing traffic and shutting down commerce to protest what they describe as “anti-farmer” agricultural laws passed in September.

India’s foreign minister will skip a Canada-led coronavirus meeting after Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau issued comments in support of ongoing farmer protests in India, Pakistani newspaper Dawn reported on Monday.

Tens of thousands of farmers protesting new agricultural laws on the outskirts of India’s national capital, New Delhi, must be removed because they are blocking the travel of ambulances and other emergency medical services, a petition filed in India’s Supreme Court argued on Friday.

Farmers in New Delhi continued protests against recently passed agricultural laws on Wednesday for the seventh straight day. The protests have disrupted key transport routes into and out of India’s national capital.

SCOTUS agreed to hear a case from CA growers that claims state law allowing labor union to contact workers violates private property rights.

President Donald Trump won the state of Iowa in the 2020 presidential election on Tuesday evening, a state he won in 2016.

Authorities in California have arrested and charged a man with burning signs supporting President Donald Trump and Rep. Devin Nunes.