Tag: agriculture

Fewer living on Norwegian farms

Around 400,000 people in Norway were registered as living on a farm last year, a decline of 10 percent since 2006. Fully 20 percent...

Norway set to export its cured mutton

Norwegian speciality meat producers have signed their first contracts for export of the sliced cured mutton known locally as fenalår. The traditional thinly sliced meat is believed...

Farmers mostly agree to state aid

UPDATED: Norway's largest farmers' lobby has agreed to accept a sweetened support and subsidy offer from the state, while a smaller farmers' organization was...

Farming organizations come to the table

Norway's two most powerful farming lobbies dropped threats of refusing to negotiate their financial support demands with state officials, and agreed to come to the...

Ministry slashes farmers’ demands

Hopes for less hostile subsidy negotiations between the state agriculture ministry and Norwegian farmers dimmed on Tuesday, after the state only offered a tenth of the...

New effort to battle animal cruelty cases

The government, heeding calls from animal rights activists, announced the creation on Monday of a new state authority aimed at investigating and prosecuting animal cruelty. The...

Farmers want to boost food prices

Norway's two main farming organizations handed over a demand for the equivalent to NOK 950 million (USD 118 million) in state financial aid on Friday,...

Bacteria threatens more hog farmers

State food safety authorities have been swooping down on hog farmers in Norway after discovering several cases of MRSA bacterial infection. Another farm was...

Farmers, Orkla cash in on milk prices

Milk prices have been falling around the world lately, but not in Norway, where dairy farmers benefit from state subsidy, strict market regulation and high...

Chicken sales fall on antibiotics scare

Grocery stores and poultry producers in Norway confirmed over the weekend that chicken sales have fallen after news that some antibiotic-resistant bacteria had been...
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