Insights and Stories on Farming

Rabobank to offer Canadian farm-level lending

Jan. 13, 2023 at 5:50 am CST

Updated — A global financing firm operating at higher altitudes in Canada’s food and agrifood sector now plans to expand its business down to the farm and ranch level. The Canadian arm of Rabobank — an Amsterdam-based farmer co-operative lender, providing banking, leasing and real estate services in more than […]

Free mental health training, workshops offered for farmers

Nov. 24, 2022 at 6:12 am CST

By Hannah Polk

Feds apologize for Saskatchewan farming colony scheme

Aug. 10, 2022 at 12:08 pm CDT

By Dave Bedard

Sierra Leone passes new laws to boost landowners’ rights

Aug. 9, 2022 at 1:16 am CDT

By Umaru Fofana

Farming behind the lines: Growers in Ukraine plant amid hostilities close by

May. 9, 2022 at 6:14 pm CDT

By Ihor Pavliuk

Farming behind the lines in Ukraine

Mar. 17, 2022 at 7:42 pm CDT

Ukrainians will farm their land, even in the face of war. In the Kherson area of southern Ukraine, where war rages and the city of Kherson is seen by the Russian invaders as strategic, a column set out on Monday. This was a column of tractors, under the flag of […]

By Ihor Pavliuk

Farm cybersecurity campaign seeks farmer input

Jan. 20, 2022 at 7:19 pm CST

Canadian farmers are being asked for their input on a federally-backed project to assess and improve cybersecurity in Canada’s ag sector. The Community Safety Knowledge Alliance, the lead organization on the Cyber Security Capacity in Canadian Agriculture project, has put up a voluntary online survey for farm operators, running until […]

By GFM Staff

India’s Modi backs down on farm reforms in surprise win for protesters

Nov. 19, 2021 at 4:56 pm CST

Ghaziabad, India | Reuters — In a surprise announcement Friday, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi said he would repeal agriculture laws that farmers have been protesting against for more than a year, sparking celebrations for what farmers called a hard-fought victory. Modi’s decision is a significant climb-down for the combative […]

By Mayank Bhardwaj rajendra-jadhav

EU parliament committee approves farm subsidy reforms

Sep. 9, 2021 at 7:30 pm CDT

Brussels | Reuters — The European Parliament’s agriculture committee on Thursday approved a deal to overhaul the European Union’s huge farming subsidies, including new measures aimed at making agriculture greener. The committee approved three pieces of legislation, which from 2023 will govern spending from the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) […]

By Kate Abnett

EU countries approve deal to overhaul farming subsidies

Jun. 28, 2021 at 5:46 pm CDT

Brussels | Reuters — European Union countries on Monday gave the green light to reforms of the bloc’s huge farming subsidy program, after a three-year battle over rules to make it greener and support smaller farms. Negotiators representing the EU’s 27 countries and European Parliament struck the deal on Friday […]