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Farmers who blocked egg packing and distribution factories across Norway from delivering their wares on Thursday announced on Friday morning they would end the blockade, several hours earlier than planned. The move was part of protest action by farmers following the breakdown of negotiations with the government on Tuesday, but political commentators argued the deal […]
An industrial law expert warned farmers’ blockade of egg deliveries from packing and distribution centres on Thursday was illegal, and both farmers and their unions could be forced to pay compensation. Major egg-packing plant owner Nortura was not fazed by the protest however, and believed the egg war would be over by Friday. Farmers blocked […]
Norwegian farmers announced plans Wednesday night to block deliveries of eggs from all nine egg-packing packing plants around Norway Thursday morning. It’s their latest means of protesting the state’s refusal to give them more than NOK 13.15 billion in state support. It’s not easy to understand why the farmers think that causing problems for consumers […]
It didn’t take long for angry Norwegian farmers to launch their latest round of highly visible protests over any attempt by the government to curtail their state support. They were ready to disrupt traffic with their tractors and resort to other means of displaying their irritation, while politicians in parliament urged them to return to […]
Representatives for Norway’s dissatisfied farmers quickly broke off negotiations with government officials on Tuesday, because they weren’t getting enough additional state support. Agriculture minister Sylvi Listhaug called the farmers’ decision “unfortunate,” and both sides blamed the other for their failure to come to terms. Listhaug of the conservative Progress Party grew up on a farm herself, […]
UPDATED: The two large lobbying groups trying to cultivate more state support for Norwegian farmers set aside some of their most spicy rhetoric on Tuesday and headed back to the state’s bargaining table. Agriculture Minister Sylvi Listhaug, meanwhile, seemed inclined to sweeten what she had on offer, but talks didn’t last long. The farmers are […]
The Norwegian government responded to the agricultural sector’s latest request for state support on Tuesday afternoon, offering farmers an increase of NOK 150 million (USD 25 million). That’s only 10 percent of the NOK 1.5 billion in subsidies and regulatory protection farmers asked for two weeks ago, meaning a long and heated settlement debate is […]
Philanthropist and doctor Gunhild Stordalen has teamed up with incoming Labour Party (Arbeiderpartiet, Ap) leader Jonas Gahr Støre and Rema 1000 supermarket boss Ole Robert Reitan as part of a global initiative to combat lifestyle diseases and food production that is damaging to the environment. One of Stordalen’s key messages is to eat less meat, […]
Norway’s two leading farmers’ organizations handed over demands on Friday for an additional NOK 1.5 billion (USD 250 million) in state support in the form of subsidies and regulatory protection. That would amount to an average annual raise of NOK 35,000 per farmer, much more than the average Norwegian can expect to receive in this […]
NEWS ANALYSIS: New Agriculture Minister Sylvi Listhaug is a farmer’s daughter who has referred to the country’s highly regulated farming and food industries as a “Norwegian form of communism.” Now she’s in a position to tackle many of the aspects that make food in Norway the most expensive in the world, and the powerful farming […]
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