AGRICULTURE NEWS - Farmers’ meetings are as old as farming itself. The need to share information and discuss business with other farmers has always been there, judging from archaeological finds in Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt.
The first documented farmers’ days occurred in North America and Europe in the late 1800s, and they were brought about largely by events such as the potato famine in Europe, caused by potato blight, as well as a crisis in Minnesota in the US, where farmers had become too reliant on wheat and did not have the knowledge to grow other crops or raise livestock.
The problem in Minnesota made newspaper headlines across the country.
Read the full article here on the Caxton Publication, Farmers Weekly
