It’s never too late to learn something new

Farmers’ meetings are as old as farming itself. The need to share information and to 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