Farmers

Gaza Farmers Begin Hard Work Of Rebuilding Agricultural Sector

June 9, 2026 Ansam Al-Qitaa, Mondoweiss. Educate! Farmers, Food and Agriculture, Gaza, Genocide, Israel, Palestine

The two plots of land that Jalal Arafat has owned for decades sit on either side of the line that has redrawn Gaza’s map following the ceasefire in October 2025. One lies beyond reach, three meters from what is now known as the “Yellow Line,” which cuts Gaza roughly in half. The other, 800 meters further out, was used as the location for Israeli army barracks during the invasion of Gaza City’s al-Zaytoun neighborhood. When the hostilities paused near the second plot, Arafat returned, despite warnings. The area had been reduced to what he described as “destroyed sand dunes.”

Farmers Face A Fertilizer Crisis At Spring Planting Time

May 15, 2026 Omanjana Goswami, Union of Concerned Scientists. Educate! Farmers, Fertilizer, Food and Agriculture, Food Security

The ongoing blockade of ships crossing the Strait of Hormuz has affected the passage of oil, finished fertilizer products, and the raw materials used to synthesize fertilizer. Exacerbated by limited supply, the price of fertilizer has steadily increased since the beginning of the war. On April 27, the price of urea was at $692 per metric ton, a 47 percent increase since the war began. The price of other fertilizers like diammonium phosphate was at $725 per metric ton. Retail prices of all major fertilizer products have been trending rapidly upwards.

Sheinbaum To Forgive Debts For Tens Of Thousands Of Small Farmers

May 13, 2026 Pablo Meriguet, People's Dispatch. Create! Debt, Debt Jubilee, Farmers, Food and Agriculture, Mexico

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, announced a government program that seeks to settle, in many cases, and significantly reduce, in others, the debts owed by small-scale farmers, small producers, and fishermen to the government. “Today we have the great news that many of those debts have already been paid off, just like the unpayable debts of Infonavit and Fovissste. So today we have great news for all debtors of the National Agricultural Development Finance Agency because their debts are going to be significantly reduced,” the president said during her regular daily press conference.

USDA Cuts Land-Access Grants

May 12, 2026 Kat Grimmett, Scheer Post. Educate! Farmers, Land Grants, Trump Administration, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has slashed a $300 million grant program designed to help underserved farmers access land, capital, and training, putting roughly 50 projects across 40 states and territories at risk of collapse. For young, first-generation, and community-based producers, the cuts threaten planned farmland purchases, training programs, and the local food networks those projects were meant to build. The terminated program—Increasing Land, Capital, and Market Access Program (ILCMA)—funded farmer associations, nonprofits, tribal governments, and universities planning to distribute support directly to producers in their communities.

Lessons For Everyone From The Irish Farmer Protests

April 29, 2026 Anthony Pahnke, Portside. Resist! Economic crisis, Farmers, Ireland, Mass Action

Can anything make farmers turn away from President Donald Trump? How right-wing populism has gripped rural areas, especially among farmers, is evidenced by the results from the past few presidential elections. Still, critical challenges are emerging for key constituencies in Trump’s base, principally due to the damage that the Iran War is doing in the countryside. Similar conditions pushed Irish farmers to the streets in early April, causing a change among political leadership shortly after, and also helping producers receive some much-needed relief.

Fuel Protests In Ireland Express Deep Anger Over Austerity And Neglect

April 21, 2026 Ana Vracar, People's Dispatch. Resist! Farmers, Food and Agriculture, Fuel Shortages, Ireland, Strait of Hormuz

For almost two weeks, protests and blockades against high fuel prices caused upheaval in Ireland: major roads were blocked, along with key fuel supply nodes. While the disruption of oil prices caused by the illegal war launched by the United States and Israel on Iran might have been the immediate trigger of the discontent, the reaction on the streets was the expression of much deeper and long-standing anger. In an interview with BreakThrough News, Sinn Féin MP Chris Hazzard pointed out that rural areas of Ireland had been particularly hard-hit by underfunding and underdevelopment of public services, including transport, leaving them cut off and living through the worst effects of growing inequities.

John Deere Settles Right To Repair Lawsuit For $99 Million

April 13, 2026 Kate Meadows, Cowboy State Daily. Resist! Farmers, John Deere, Legal System, Monopoly, Right to Repair

John Deere has agreed to pay $99 million to farmers, including some in Wyoming, to settle a long-running right-to-repair lawsuit over limiting access to diagnostic tools and software needed to repair its equipment. Right-to-repair has been an emotional rallying cry for U.S. farmers and ranchers who say tractors have become so technologically advanced that they’re nearly impossible to fix themselves. That means paying for John Deere dealerships to respond when equipment goes down, as well as waiting.

Working People Oppose Corporate Railroad Merger

April 2, 2026 Otis Grotewohl, Workers World. Resist! Farmers, Food and Agriculture, Norfolk Southern, Railroad Merger, Railroad Workers, Union Pacific

Rail workers and small family farmers are united in opposition to the proposed $85 billion merger between Union Pacific (UP) and Norfolk Southern (NS). The idea was first proposed by UP-NS bosses and capitalist shareholders in July 2025. The merger would combine the two major railroad companies, which span tracks across 43 states, and would create the first single-line railroad linking the North American coasts. Several labor unions and organizations representing small farmers have raised concerns about how the merger would impact their jobs and raise costs for consumers.

The Truth About Roundup Herbicide

March 1, 2026 Jim Goodman, Counter Punch. Educate! Farmers, Food and Agriculture, health, Pesticides, Roundup

Roundup was developed in the 1970s as a non-selective herbicide, meaning it would kill almost any growing plant it touched. It was an effective burn-down herbicide farmers could apply prior to planting and it assured an almost weed-free field at the beginning of the growing season. Roundup could be used in non-agricultural situations as well, to kill weeds and grass growing in sidewalk and patio cracks, around buildings etc, but care was needed because, as noted, it was non-target and could kill whatever plant it touched.

Forging A Stronger Farmers’ Movement In Tanzania

December 31, 2025 Prasanth R. and Kate Janse Van Rensburg, People's Dispatch. Organize! Africa, Agroecology, Farmers, Food and Agriculture, Food Sovereignty, Tanzania

Over 670 farmers gathered in Morogoro, Tanzania, on December 4-5 to chart a course for the future of MVIWATA (National Network of Farmers Groups in Tanzania), one of Africa’s most unique farmers’ organizations. The occasion was MVIWATA’s 30th Annual General Meeting (AGM), which serves as the highest democratic platform for members to voice their aspirations for the organization’s future. As the powerful slogan, “Mviwata, Sauti ya Mkulima” (MVIWATA is the voice of the farmer) and “Mtetezi wa Mkulima, Mkulima Mwenyewe” (The defender of the farmer is the farmer), rang through the hall time and again, the farmers debated and arrived at conclusions on strengthening their networks in concrete ways.

Farmers Mobilise At Liège Airport Against The EU-Mercosur Agreement

December 18, 2025 La Via Campesina. Resist! Agriculture, European Union (EU), Farmers, Mercosur, Trade Agreements

Farmers’ organisations from the European Milk Board (EMB) and European Coordination Via Campesina (ECVC) descended on Liège Airport together with civil society this Wednesday 17 December to express their anger at EU policies that jeopardize European agriculture. Farmers from Mig, AbL, FUGEA, Boerenforum, and La Confédération Paysanne gathered at this key hub for international trade with a common message that firmly rejects the EU-Mercosur treaty and calls for a strong CAP with a strong budget to guarantee farmers a decent income.

Indian Farmers Protest New Seed Bill, Calling It A Threat To Sovereignty

December 14, 2025 Abdul Rahman, People's Dispatch. Resist! Farmers, Food and Agriculture, GMOs, India, Seeds, Worker Rights and Jobs

Hundreds of thousands of farmers across India protested against the new draft Seed Bill 2025 on Monday, December 8, burning copies of it and demanding its immediate withdrawal. The bill will compromise the country’s food security and threaten its seed sovereignty, the farmers claimed. The call for the protest was made by Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), a collective of various farmers’ organizations formed in 2020, which includes the left-wing All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS). Farmers gathered in their villages/towns with banners and posters and burnt copies of the seed bill.

Legalizing Yankee Ingenuity

November 26, 2025 Paul Spinrad, The Main Street Journal. Create! Congress, Farm Act, Farmers, Right to Repair

Did you see the movie The Martian (2015), where Matt Damon plays an astronaut stranded on Mars who constantly has to figure out how to keep surviving? In the newsletter for the CSA farm that I belong to, Terra Firma, Paul Underhill wrote that The Martian is one of the most accurate movie portrayals of what it’s like to be a farmer, even though it’s a sci-fi movie. It shows someone who constantly has to improvise, fixing things however they can with whatever they happen to have. Farmers are the original MacGyvers, he writes, “confronting daily setbacks and weather-related disasters with humor, ingenuity, and a pair of Vise-Grips.”

What It Takes To Keep Kentucky’s Black-Led Farms Alive

September 29, 2025 Anabel Peterman, Next City. Create! Black America, Black Farmers, Farmers, Kentucky

Near the eastern edge of Fayette County, Kentucky, sits the Coleman Crest Farm in the rural Black hamlet of Uttingertown. That’s where Jim Coleman works the land his great-grandfather tilled as an enslaved person — until he secured his freedom by fighting in the Civil War and returning to purchase the farm more than 130 years ago. Now, Coleman is continuing his family’s farming legacy, but not because it’s easy work. “Yesterday, I was pulling up mulch,” Coleman says, in between administrative calls. “I had harvested hard the day before. Did a little bit of harvesting [yesterday], invoiced it, packaged it, put it in the case, put it in my truck, drove to my customer, and delivered.” Coleman’s 13-acre plot is one of few in the county – and in Kentucky – that’s still Black- owned and operated. And among all farmers, the sheer volume of farmland has fallen, statewide and nationwide.

De-Commodifying The Soil

September 12, 2025 DarWeaver, Resilience. Create! Decommodify, Farmers, Food and Agriculture, Land Reform

During high summer, I do my best to get up early and be out in the field with the sheep before the sun reaches its full power. From May to October, I move them onto fresh pasture every few days, a rhythm that keeps me attuned to the needs of the land and disperses their manure evenly without allowing them to compact or overgraze any one section. A field like this feeds more than the livestock that graze it. Throughout the growing season, it offers nourishment for countless insects, pollinators, reptiles, ground-nesting birds, water tables, and traveling wildlife. The fertile soil, chest-high grasses, and flowers offer refuge for all of us here on the ridge. As I survey the awakened landscape, my gratitude for the living gifts of this world shifts to grief.

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