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...Germany has also seen nationwide rail strikes and widespread protests by farmers angry at cuts to agricultural subsidies, while industrial action by Lufthansa ground crews on Wednesday was set to cause severe...
...The large increase in imports has exacerbated farmers’ protests over soaring costs and regulation....
...He said 15,000 officers would be deployed on Monday to prevent farmers from blocking access to area airports and stop tractors from entering the city....
...Context: Europe’s 9mn farmers have taken to the streets in force since the beginning of the year, with tractors blocking roads in at least half of the member states....
...Context: Farmers have been demonstrating across the EU for more than a year now, blockading roads with tractors and throwing manure....
...This covers the innovator providing affordable tractor hire and equipment financing so rural communities in Africa benefit from increased farmer yields and incomes....
...Digging into the New York Times archives, I found this news report from the edition of June 28 1961: Paris, June 27 — Thousands of farmers blocked highways and isolated villages with their tractors and...
...During recent protests in which farmers blockaded highways with tractors and promised to “lay siege” to Paris, many complained about stringent regulations in the EU’s “farm-to-fork” strategy, which aims...
...Agricultural protests are as old as the EU itself — and farmers, who can bring along tractors and piles of manure to make their point, are a powerful lobby; annual farm subsidies of about €60bn make up roughly...
...The same day, more than 1,000 farmers are set to roll into Brussels — some in tractors, some on foot — for more protests....
...Without irrigation, fertiliser, modern seeds or tractors, productivity across the continent is dismally low....
...But the hope is that it could also help these companies offset their carbon footprint. Farmers, they’re a little sceptical, though. Here to talk to me about it is the FT’s Susannah Savage....
...While at the same time, protesting farmers, angry at the EU’s agricultural policies, attempt to drive their tractors on to that same roundabout and get their demands on the leaders’ agenda....
...In April and May, thousands of Slovenia’s farmers drove their tractors to Ljubljana, the capital, arguing that these policies were created by “distant environmentalists” and were “unbearable” for them....
...Tractor trauma: German farmers’ protests over cuts to fuel and vehicle subsidies is deepening the woes of Olaf Scholz’s government....
...From fields where blue cranes stalk the turned earth there rises the distant thunder of a tractor....
...Florida-based GQG Partners has invested $3.19bn across four listed Adani companies. Adani Capital services range from loans for farmers buying tractors to supply-chain financing....
...Another benefit of the next generation of robots is that they are smaller than traditional machinery, such as combine harvesters and tractors....
...Take AGCO, a US-listed company that has been making tractors and other farming equipment since the 1990s....
...American farmers have forced John Deere to let them fix their own tractors after outrage at its insistence that only the company, or its authorised dealers, could use the onboard diagnostic software....
...The company has raised prices on its portfolio of products, which includes its iconic green tractors and construction vehicles, as it contends with higher input costs....
...Reducing disturbance would involve using fewer heavy tractors and rewarding farmers for “no-till” methods....
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