Serbian farmers get fertilizer subsidy

Serbia has offered farmers a 40 per cent discount on fertilizer prices, only weeks after farmers threatened not to use the chemicals unless the government doubled subsidies to make up for soaring production costs. Farmers said the move was welcome, but came a bit late after many of them have abandoned sowing seasonal crops, including

Canada’s farmers nervously eye financial crisis

“I think what started out looking like a great year has suddenly… chilled a little bit.” Canadian farmers, alarmed by plunging commodity prices, are nervous that the global financial crisis could tighten up the credit they count on to tackle the rising cost of planting crops and feeding livestock. There have been few signs of