French farmers, who vented their fury against President Emmanuel Macron during his recent visit to the Paris Agricultural Fair - where politicians regularly pat the backsides of bulls to prove their bona fides - say they can scarcely dig a ditch, trim a hedge, or birth a calf without confronting a maze of regulatory requirements ...
The European policy has kept food abundant, set certain prices, and helped ensure that France and the European Union have a large trade surplus in agricultural and food products, even as it has come under scrutiny for corruption and favoring the rich ...
The average age of farmers is over 50, and many cannot find a successor.. . Often the romanticized image of the French farm - cows being milked at dawn as the mist rises over undulating pasture - is at some distance from reality ...
topThe European policy has kept food abundant, set certain prices, and helped ensure that France and the European Union have a large trade surplus in agricultural and food products, even...
top. French farmers, who vented their fury against President Emmanuel Macron during his recent visit to the Paris Agricultural Fair - where politicians regularly pat the backsides of...
topOften the romanticized image of the French farm - cows being milked at dawn as the mist rises over undulating pasture - is at some distance from reality.
topThe European policy has kept food abundant, set certain prices, and helped ensure that France and the European Union have a large trade surplus in agricultural and food products, even as it has come under scrutiny for corruption and favoring the rich
topThe average age of farmers is over 50, and many cannot find a successor.. . Often the romanticized image of the French farm - cows being milked at dawn as the mist rises over undulating pasture - is at some distance from reality
top... pat the backsides of bulls to prove their bona fides - say they can scarcely dig a ditch, trim a hedge, or birth a calf without confronting a maze of regulatory requirements.
top... fury against President Emmanuel Macron during his recent visit to the Paris Agricultural Fair - where politicians regularly pat the backsides of bulls to prove their bona fides - say they can scarcely dig a ditch, trim a hedge, or birth a calf without confronting a maze of regulatory requirements
topFarmers may not contribute many votes directly but they are popular, even venerated, figures in France, and their discontent registers with a broad spectrum of voters
topThe European policy has kept food abundant, set certain prices, and helped ensure that France and the European Union have a large trade surplus in agricultural and food...
topThe European policy has kept food abundant, set certain prices, and helped ensure that France and the European Union have a large trade surplus in agricultural and food products, even as it has come under scrutiny for corruption and favoring the rich
top... by "imposing things like climate ideology, gender madness and all that nonsense." Demonstrations by German farmers had not previously been as violent as the recent ones.
topFrench farmers, who vented their fury against President Emmanuel Macron during his recent visit to the Paris Agricultural Fair - where politicians regularly pat the backsides of...
topFrench farmers, who vented their fury against President Emmanuel Macron during his recent visit to the Paris Agricultural Fair - where politicians regularly pat the backsides of bulls to prove their bona fides - say they...
top... farmers, who vented their fury against President Emmanuel Macron during his recent visit to the Paris Agricultural Fair - where politicians regularly pat the backsides of bulls to prove their bona fides - say they can scarcely dig a ditch, trim a hedge, or birth a calf without confronting a maze of regulatory...
topThe European policy has kept food abundant, set certain prices, and helped ensure that France and the European Union have a large trade surplus in agricultural and...
topIt has turned against free trade, moving to block an agreement with Mercosur, a South American bloc accused by farmers of unfair competition.. . The question is how much of a toll such concessions will take on the environment and whether these...
topIt has turned against free trade, moving to block an agreement with Mercosur, a South American bloc accused by farmers of unfair competition.. . The question is how much of a toll such concessions will take on the environment and whether these are cosmetic changes to what is widely seen as a dysfunctional,...
top... economist at the French National Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment, said that close to 18 percent of French farmers live below the official poverty line, and 25 percent are struggling.
topVincent Chatellier, an economist at the French National Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment, said that close to 18 percent of French farmers live below the official poverty line, and 25 percent are struggling
topVincent Chatellier, an economist at the French National Institute for Agriculture, Food and the Environment, said that close to 18 percent of French farmers live below the official poverty line, and 25 percent are struggling
top... is that the countryside is the custodian of national traditions under assault from modernity, political correctness and immigration, in addition to a thicket of environmental rules that, in their view, defies common sense.
topTheir message is that the countryside is the custodian of national traditions under assault from modernity, political correctness and immigration, in addition to a thicket of environmental rules that, in their view, defies common sense
topTheir message is that the countryside is the custodian of national traditions under assault from modernity, political correctness and immigration, in addition to a thicket of environmental rules that, in their view, defies common sense
top... national traditions under assault from modernity, political correctness and immigration, in addition to a thicket of environmental rules that, in their view, defies common sense.
topEurope's decision to open its doors to cheaper Ukrainian grain and poultry in a show of solidarity added to competitive problems in a bloc where labor costs already varied widely
topSpanish farmers have destroyed Moroccan produce grown with cheaper labor. Polish farmers are enraged by what they see as unfair competition from Ukraine.
topEurope's decision to open its doors to cheaper Ukrainian grain and poultry in a show of solidarity added to competitive problems in a bloc where labor costs already varied widely
topSpanish farmers have destroyed Moroccan produce grown with cheaper labor. Polish farmers are enraged by what they see as unfair competition from Ukraine
topEurope's decision to open its doors to cheaper Ukrainian grain and poultry in a show of solidarity added to competitive problems in a bloc where labor costs already varied widely. At the same time, the E.U. has in many cases reduced subsidies to farmers, especially if they do not shift to more environmentally...
topChatelain said, no bird would nest in a hedge on March 15 because the hedge is still frozen.. . Thierry Thenoz, 63, a pig farmer in Lescheroux in southeastern France, told me he had replanted miles...
top... mountains in the distance, Jean-Michel Sibelle expounded on the intricate secrets of soil, climate and breeding that have made his chickens - blue feet, white feathers, red combs in the colors of France - the royalty of poultry
topOver the past five years, they built a 700-acre organic farm in eastern France where they grow wheat, rye, lentils, flax, sunflowers and other crops, as well as raising cattle
topBesides deferring some environmental rules, France has canceled a tax increase on diesel fuel for farm vehicles. It has turned against free trade, moving to block an agreement with Mercosur, a South American bloc accused by farmers of unfair competition
topBesides deferring some environmental rules, France has canceled a tax increase on diesel fuel for farm vehicles. It has turned against free trade, moving to block an agreement with Mercosur, a South American bloc accused by farmers of unfair competition
topChatelain said, no bird would nest in a hedge on March 15 because the hedge is still frozen.. . Thierry Thenoz, 63, a pig farmer in Lescheroux in southeastern France, told me he had replanted miles of hedges on his 700-acre farm
topChatelain said, no bird would nest in a hedge on March 15 because the hedge is still frozen.. . Thierry Thenoz, 63, a pig farmer in Lescheroux in southeastern France, told me he had replanted miles of hedges on his 700-acre farm
top"It's the end of the world versus the end of the month," Arnaud Rousseau, the head of the FNSEA, France's largest farmers'union, said in an interview. "There's no point talking about farm practices that help save the environment, if farmers cannot...
top"It's the end of the world versus the end of the month," Arnaud Rousseau, the head of the FNSEA, France's largest farmers'union, said in an interview
topThe cost for his electrified irrigation more than doubled in 2023, and his fertilizer costs tripled, he said, as the war in Ukraine increased energy prices.
topThenoz, who invested long ago in a methane unit to recycle pig manure as fertilizer to make his farm self-sustaining, has also decided to retire and sell his shares in the farm
topThenoz, who invested long ago in a methane unit to recycle pig manure as fertilizer to make his farm self-sustaining, has also decided to retire and sell his shares in the farm
topThenoz, who invested long ago in a methane unit to recycle pig manure as fertilizer to make his farm self-sustaining, has also decided to retire and sell his shares in the farm
topThenoz, who invested long ago in a methane unit to recycle pig manure as fertilizer to make his farm self-sustaining, has also decided to retire and sell his shares in the farm
topThe cost for his electrified irrigation more than doubled in 2023, and his fertilizer costs tripled, he said, as the war in Ukraine increased energy prices.
topThe cost for his electrified irrigation more than doubled in 2023, and his fertilizer costs tripled, he said, as the war in Ukraine increased energy prices.
top... environmental rules, France has canceled a tax increase on diesel fuel for farm vehicles. It has turned against free trade, moving to block an agreement with Mercosur, a South American bloc accused by farmers of unfair competition.
topBesides deferring some environmental rules, France has canceled a tax increase on diesel fuel for farm vehicles. It has turned against free trade, moving to block an agreement with Mercosur, a South American bloc accused by farmers...
topBesides deferring some environmental rules, France has canceled a tax increase on diesel fuel for farm vehicles. It has turned against free trade, moving to block an agreement with Mercosur, a South American bloc accused by farmers of unfair competition
topMarine Le Pen, the leader of France's anti-immigrant National Rally party, argues that true exile "is not to be banished from your country, but to live in it and no longer recognize it." Her young lieutenant,...
topMarine Le Pen, the leader of France's anti-immigrant National Rally party, argues that true exile "is not to be banished from your country, but to live in it...
top... that true exile "is not to be banished from your country, but to live in it and no longer recognize it." Her young lieutenant, the charismatic Jordan Bardella, 28, who is leading the party's election campaign, speaks of "punitive ecology" as he crisscrosses the countryside
topMarine Le Pen, the leader of France's anti-immigrant National Rally party, argues that true exile "is not to be banished from your country, but to live in it and no longer recognize it." Her young lieutenant, the charismatic Jordan Bardella,...
top... recognize it." Her young lieutenant, the charismatic Jordan Bardella, 28, who is leading the party's election campaign, speaks of "punitive ecology" as he crisscrosses the countryside.
top... Her young lieutenant, the charismatic Jordan Bardella, 28, who is leading the party's election campaign, speaks of "punitive ecology" as he crisscrosses the countryside.
topMarine Le Pen, the leader of France's anti-immigrant National Rally party, argues that true exile "is not to be banished from your country, but to live in it and no longer recognize it." Her young lieutenant, the charismatic Jordan Bardella, 28, who is leading the party's election...
topIn Germany, Stefan Hartung, a member of Die Heimat (Homeland), a neo-Nazi party, addressed a farmers'protest in January and denounced Brussels and Berlin politicians who exert control over people by "imposing things like climate ideology, gender madness...
topGazing out from his 265-acre farm to the silhouetted Jura mountains in the distance, Jean-Michel Sibelle expounded on the intricate secrets of soil, climate and breeding that have made his chickens - blue...
top... intricate secrets of soil, climate and breeding that have made his chickens - blue feet, white feathers, red combs in the colors of France - the royalty of poultry.
top... Germany, Stefan Hartung, a member of Die Heimat (Homeland), a neo-Nazi party, addressed a farmers'protest in January and denounced Brussels and Berlin politicians who exert control over people by "imposing things like climate ideology, gender madness and all that nonsense." Demonstrations by German farmers...
top... and denounced Brussels and Berlin politicians who exert control over people by "imposing things like climate ideology, gender madness and all that nonsense." Demonstrations by German farmers had not previously been as violent as the recent ones
topIn Germany, Stefan Hartung, a member of Die Heimat (Homeland), a neo-Nazi party, addressed a farmers'protest in January and denounced Brussels and Berlin politicians who exert control over people by "imposing things...
top... mountains in the distance, Jean-Michel Sibelle expounded on the intricate secrets of soil, climate and breeding that have made his chickens - blue feet, white feathers, red combs in the colors of France - the royalty of poultry.