Hundreds of farmers continued to hold a remote dam in northern Mexico on Friday as time was running out for the country to catch up on payments and avoid breaching a 1944 water treaty with the United States. Mexico’s National Water Commission warned that farmers who took over a dam in the border state of […]

Hundreds of mainly European farmers could benefit from the move, aimed at mending relations with the West.

Zimbabwe has agreed to pay nearly £3bn in compensation to white farmers who had their land taken from them nearly two decades ago in a significant new agreement. After ten years of politically charged negotiations, on Monday an agreement was finally struck. The Zimbabwean government agreed to pay about 50 per cent of the value […]

Premier music network AXS TV proudly teamed with Farm Aid to produce and air the virtual benefit concert special “At Home With Farm Aid” to help farmers who are impacted by the coronavirus. The show aired on April 11 and raised over $500,000 to support farm families. Farm Aid founder Willie Nelson…

The Trump administration plans to buy milk and meat from U.S. farmers as part of an initial $15.5 billion effort to help them weather the impact of the coronavirus outbreak, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said on Wednesday.

Travel bans mean farmers have lost thousands of foreign workers they need to pick fruit and veg. The industry trade body British Summer Fruits fears produce will rot in fields and orchards.

In leaked emails obtained by The Mail on Sunday, powerful Treasury adviser Tim Leunig argues that the food sector is not ‘critically important’ to the economy.

Environment Secretary George Eustice accused some veteran farmers of ‘standing in the way of change’ and coasting along on state subsidies.

Environment Secretary George Eustice has hinted that the UK would be open to discussions over imports of acid-washed meat, which could be pivotal to trade talks.

Some poultry farmers in the province at the heart of China’s coronavirus outbreak are having to euthanise young birds amid new rules designed to contain the disease that have paralysed live animal transport, feed supply and slaughterhouses. Some farmers have halved rations of depleted feed stocks for their chickens, while others disposed of the birds, […]