Lancaster Farming recently reported on our recent webinar, where we heard first-hand from French and Spanish farmers about the roots of their discontent.
This winter’s European farmer protests weren’t what they seemed to be.
To Americans, the protests might have looked like farmers uniting around common hardships — or as angry farmers indulging in fringe politics.
But small-scale European farmers say the movement was neither a united front nor a mere outburst of the far right.
Rather, they told the U.S.-based National Family Farm Coalition in a June 27 webinar, it was a case of big farmers steamrolling small farmers.