The roadblocks, mainly by Belgian farmers with support of some Dutch colleagues, choked highways that are vital transport routes for freight from the major European ports of Antwerp and Rotterdam.

Why farmers all over Europe are protesting How agriculture fuels Europe’s environmental crises How farm subsidies became ...

(AP Photo/Thibault Camus) (CN) — Tractors blocking roads and laying siege ... a welfare system for farmers and a mechanism to stabilize prices across the bloc. But even as it was put in place, Sicco ...

Meanwhile, Belgian farmers - also angry about rising costs, EU environmental policies and cheap food imports - plan to block access roads to the ... was close to the Dutch border on the E19 ...

policy. (Photo by Sem van der Wal) For decades, Dutch animal farmers have been encouraged to go big. It’s been part of a concerted government policy to increase food production in this densely ...

Polish farmers on Wednesday blocked roads nationwide in a new protest against ... to clear the crossing" whenever farmers attempt to block the frontier. Ukraine's agriculture sector has been ...

An oil-funded think tank backed by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán is involved in organising widespread farmer protests ...

Dozens of police officers, some on horseback, blocked protesters from reaching the A12 arterial highway into the Dutch seaside city, the scene of previous actions organised by the Extinction ...

The bluetongue virus was first identified on four Dutch sheep farms in early September last year ... Bluetongue is spread by midges, not by direct contact between animals, and farmers have been told ...

NEVADA — Iowa farmers told a federal trade leader this weekend that the agency should block the $3.6 billion ... OCI Global, the Dutch parent of the Iowa Fertilizer Co., announced in December ...