Tag: farmers
Farmers refuse to negotiate demands
UPDATED: Negotiations between Norwegian farmers and the government for more agricultural subsidy and financial support ended before they began on Thursday. Now some angry...
Farmers demand billions in support
Norwegian farmers' two major lobbying organizations have handed over demands for NOK 2.1 billion in taxpayer support for the year ahead, spread over cost...
Wolves’ fate up to the Supreme Court
Norway's Supreme Court started hearing the state's appeal of a rare victory for those trying to save the country's allegedly protected wolf population from...
Farmer indicted for neglecting his sheep
A farmer in Målselv, Northern Norway, has been indicted and faces a court trial on several counts of violating animal welfare laws. It's the...
Farmer jailed after neglecting animals
A Norwegian man has been sentenced to eight months in prison after state food and animal authorities found 340 dead pigs and at least...
Fish over cheese in Brexit talks
Norway's left-leaning newspaper Dagsavisen has long supported subsidies and tariff protection for farmers in Norway, but now thinks they should let more British cheese...
Police find 80 dead sheep in Troms
In what appears to be a new case of animal neglect, police in Northern Norway found 80 dead sheep on a farm in Midt-Troms....
More wolves shot but ‘not enough’
A few more wolves have been shot in Southern- and Eastern Norway in recent weeks, including one in the mountains above Ringsaker and another...
State strikes quick deal with farmers
Norway's annual negotiations with chronically dissatisfied farmers were shortened and simplified this year, because of extraordinary conditions created by the Corona virus crisis. Existing...
Dead wolf was poisoned
Police in eastern Norway have confirmed that a dead wolf found floating in a lake in the small community of Åsnes in Hedmark was...
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