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Convoys of farmers set off on Sunday to try to block roads around Paris in protest against what they say is unfair competition from overseas and excessive regulation. Farmers from France, the ...
The Farmers' Party for Social Union (Parti paysan d'union sociale, PPUS) was founded on 11 July 1945 by Paul Antier under the name Farmers' Party to represent agricultural interests and succeed the pre-war French Agrarian and Peasant Party. Camille Laurens, former deputy syndic of the Peasant Corporation, became one of its leaders.
The Middlebury CDP is located in the northwest part of the town of Middlebury, centered on a falls on Otter Creek. According to the United States Census Bureau , the CDP has a total area of 14.1 square miles (36.5 km 2 ), of which 13.9 square miles (36.0 km 2 ) is land and 0.19 square miles (0.5 km 2 ), or 1.31%, is water.
Addison County was established by act of the Legislature October 18, 1785, [3] during the period of Vermont Republic. In 1791, Vermont joined the federal union after the original thirteen colonies. The main product of the county was wheat. In the 1820s, farmers began to raise sheep.
Angry farmers were back in Paris on their tractors in a new protest Friday demanding more government support and simpler regulations, on the eve of a major agricultural fair in the French capital.
Farmers prepared to protest on Saturday against President Emmanuel Macron's visit to a major Paris farm fair, amid anger over costs, red tape and green regulations. Farmers have been protesting ...
Middlebury is located near the center of Addison County in western Vermont. The town is drained by Otter Creek, which flows from south to north along the western edge of the town, with the falls at the center of the village.
As farmers face cheaper imports, burdensome regulations and meagre incomes, a Mercosur deal would represent a bitter "cherry on the cake", Arnaud Rousseau, head of France's main farmers' union ...