Sharjah Coop launches 6th Farmers’ Forum

As part of efforts to strengthen the national food security ecosystem and reinforce concepts of community sustainability, Sharjah Cooperative has organized the 6th Farmers’ Forum, in cooperation with the...

The next Dust Bowl is becoming more likely

About 90 years ago, American farmers in the Great Plains had so ravaged the thin soil there that a series of droughts turned the region into a vast expanse...

Farmers enter Paris on tractors in protest at trade deal

French farmers rolled into Paris on tractors Thursday morning in a show of dissent against a free trade deal they fear will create unfair competition. Dozens of tractors arrived...

Farmers should unite to fight unfair trade policies

Anthony Pahnke, Tribune News Service 2025 has been a tough year for farmers. As if the perennial problems of price volatility and changing weather patterns were not enough, the...

Withering roots

Israeli settler attacks have combined with global warming to shrink this year’s olive crop in the occupied West Bank, threatening the very existence of Palestinian farmers on their land....

Bailout package

Water salinity hurting farmers, livestock in Iraq

Iraqi farmer Umm Ali has watched her poultry die as salinity levels in the country’s south hit record highs, rendering already scarce water unfit for human consumption and killing...

‘Farmageddon’ can’t be solved with a bailout alone

It’s harvest time in the Midwest and farmers are bringing in bumper crops of soybeans, corn and wheat. They should be elated. But their best customers are shopping elsewhere...

Can homegrown teens replace immigrant farm labour?

I sank into Randy Carter's comfy couch, excited to see the Hollywood veteran's magnum opus. Around the first floor of his Glendale home were framed photos and posters of...

Farmers protest unjust immigration system

During the Great Depression, my great grandfather and other farmers in Wisconsin organised penny auctions to help prevent some of his neighbors from losing their property to foreclosure. On...