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Europe’s grain farms await rain break after damp winter

Weak prices for maize could encourage planting other crops

By Gus Trompiz, Michael Hogan, Reuters March 8, 2024

Grain growers in western Europe will need rain to ease this month to progress with spring planting, after a wet February maintained soggy field conditions that have already put the region on course for a smaller wheat harvest, analysts said.

Farmers protesting in Toulouse, France, on January 16, 2024, with tractors bearing placards that read ‘Macron still an effort, soon all farmers will be dead’. Photo by Alain Pitton/NurPhoto via Reuters

French farmers prepare tough welcome for Macron at farm show

Demonstrations resume amid anger over costs, red tape, green regulations

By Benoit Tessier, Reuters, Sybille De La Hamaide February 23, 2024

French farmers were back on the streets of Paris on Friday, warning President Emmanuel Macron that he should expect a difficult welcome when he opens a major farm show on Saturday, amid anger over costs, red tape and green regulations.

Head of French farmers union says protests could resume

Government in talks with farmers over prices, regulation and bureaucracy but union says its not doing enough

By Reuters February 13, 2024

The head of France's biggest farming union - the FNSEA - said on Tuesday that protests that hit the sector last month could resume if the government does not do more to meet their demands for better pay and working conditions.

Protesters lead a cow on a street in downtown Milan as people protest against European agricultural policies, next to the Regional Council of Lombardy in Milan, Italy February 5, 2024. REUTERS/Claudia Greco

Italy’s farmers head to Rome in tractor convoy protest

Protests in France, Germany eased; farmers blocked Dutch-Belgian border

By Reuters February 5, 2024

Italian farmers protesting about red tape and cheap imports from outside the EU headed towards Rome in convoys of tractors on Monday, while their colleagues in the north led a cow through the streets of Milan.

A farmer gestures during a protest against European agricultural policies, in Floriana, Malta February 2, 2024. REUTERS/Darrin Zammit Lupi

Farmers block Dutch-Belgian border as anger spreads across Europe

Polish farmers threaten closure of Ukraine border; France promises more farm measures

By Charlotte Van Campenhout, Christian Levaux, Reuters February 2, 2024

Farmers blocked the Dutch-Belgian border on Friday and occupied roads in Greece while their Polish peers announced plans to shut border crossings with Ukraine as protests for fairer prices and less red tape spread across Europe.

An effigy and a placard reading “Our end will be your hunger” are attached to a tractor as farm vehicles are lined up during a blockade by farmers on the A4 highway to protest over price pressures, taxes and green regulation, grievances that are shared by farmers across Europe, in Jossigny, near Paris, France, January 31, 2024. REUTERS/Stephanie Lecocq

EU plans curbs on Ukraine farm imports to calm angry farmers

Measures possible for other farm produce if markets disrupted

By Philip Blenkinsop, Reuters January 31, 2024

The European Commission on Wednesday proposed measures to limit agricultural imports from Ukraine and offer greater flexibility on rules for fallow land in a bid to quell protests by angry farmers in France and other EU members.

A woman, with her child, pushes a shopping trolley past a supermarket blocked by French farmers who dump tires and slurry as part of their protest over price pressures, taxes and green regulation, grievances shared by farmers across Europe, in Bon-Encontre near Agen, south of France, January 25, 2024. REUTERS/Nacho Doce

France drops plan to decrease farmers’ diesel discount

Protests to continue on unanswered questions says farming union

By Gus Trompiz, Nacho Doce, Reuters January 26, 2024

The French government dropped plans to gradually reduce state subsidies on agricultural diesel but that seems not enough for angry farmers surrounding Paris and still threatening to converge on the capital in their tractors.

French farmers block road linking France and Spain

Spain's federation of transport said farmers destroyed goods, including 20,000 litres of wine

By Catarina Demony, Emma Pinedo, Reuters January 26, 2024

French farmers blocked a main road linking France and Spain with a demonstration at the border on Friday as part of nationwide protests over low food prices and excessive bureaucracy.

French farmers block roads, dump produce as protest edges closer to Paris

Farming union handed French government a list of demands late Wednesday

By Reuters January 25, 2024

French farmers blocked highways and dumped crates of imported produce on Thursday, demanding urgent action on low farmgate prices, green regulation and free-trade policies as swelling protests moved closer to Paris.

Explainer: Why are French farmers protesting?

Many farmers feeling pinched by costs, imports, environmental regulations and disregarded by French society

By Gus Trompiz, Reuters, Sybille De La Hamaide January 24, 2024

French farmers are blocking roads across the country to demand government action to address numerous grievances, as protests in the European Union's agricultural sector spread. Here are some of the issues that have prompted the growing protest movement and how the government could respond.

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