Subsequently, the party proposed Norway's withdrawal from the European Economic Area and the Schengen Agreement.

[9] In 2017, party deputy leader Ola Borten Moe declared nationalism to be a "positive force".

[10] The party was founded at the national convention of the Norsk Landmandsforbund during 17–19 June 1920, when it was decided by the association to run for the 1921 Norwegian parliamentary election.

Only a few years after its creation, the party broke with its mother organisation and started developing a policy based on decentralisation.

This is partly because Vidkun Quisling, who later became the leader of Nasjonal Samling, was Minister of Defence in the Farmers Party Kolstad and Hundseid cabinets from 1931 to 1933.

[13] In addition, the Farmers' Party was represented in the war-time cabinet by Anders Fjelstad, who served as a consultative councillor of state.

"[23] The party was also in charge of implementing the Berne Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats in 1986.

The Centre Party's Rakel Surlien was Minister of the Environment when Norway ratified the Berne Convention, so that protection of wolves became Norwegian law.