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...Farm production and construction activity globally have generally remained strong, which helped the maker of John Deere tractors on Friday report better than expected third-quarter results and raise its...
...Tractors rolled into Brussels and blocked major arteries and squares less than 1km from where leaders were gathered, with riot police setting up rings of barricades to prevent farmers reaching the summit...
...A short history of tractors and Ukrainians (The headline’s from a novel. A good one, too.)...
...Today, our Rome bureau reports on how Italy’s capital is bracing itself for the arrival of its branch of the angry tractor brigade....
...Police used tear gas last month and called in riot units as tractors rammed barricades and spread manure in the streets....
...“Our only power is to get out our tractors and block.”...
...Schmidt was one of hundreds of farmers who parked their tractors by the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin’s most famous landmark, on Sunday evening....
...Many say they are being squeezed by higher costs for diesel for their tractors, gas and electricity and fertiliser, while struggling to pass these on to customers — food manufacturers and retailers — amid...
...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....
...These have fizzled out for now, with farmers who threatened to lay siege to Paris on their tractors in February backing down after the government pledged some aid....
...Shares of the maker of iconic green tractor closed 3.1 per cent lower, trimming an earlier drop of more than 7 per cent....
...“France and Poland and the European parliament, who are the most vocal about what we need to do to help Ukraine, have crumbled at the first sight of a tractor,” said one diplomat....
...That found its most visible expression in recent protests by farmers over a cut to agricultural subsidies, which saw hundreds of tractors converging on Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate....
...Spanish farmers also drove hundreds of tractors into central Madrid on Wednesday. Additional reporting by Leila Abboud in Paris, Alice Hancock in Brussels and Carmen Muela in Madrid...
...“United Tractors will monitor and encourage good mining practices in Nickel Industries’ mines, including reclamation,” United Tractors said, adding that long-term the EV sector would help decarbonise the...
...After embarking on a five-week crime spree that included setting fire to a tractor factory, the pair were diagnosed with a psychopathic disorder and received an indefinite sentence in Broadmoor Hospital,...
...Farmers’ organisations staged loud protests and parked dozens of tractors by the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, triggering a government U-turn on Thursday....
...In Brussels on Monday, hundreds of tractors blockaded streets close to where ministers were meeting. Some drove at riot police and destroyed barbed wire barricades set up around the main buildings....
...In his new book, Float Up, Sing Down, Hunt revisits the rural community of Bright Creek — where “everyone who still earned a living on a tractor was out doing something” — for a cycle of 14 stories that...
...Tractors and other agricultural vehicles, fire engines and other small volume vehicles are exempt....
...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...
...Tractors stormed cities and blocked off several autobahn junctions. The disruption to millions of commuters has been exacerbated by a train drivers’ strike....
...The modern farmers’ uprising travels by tractor, not ox cart. But its message to metropolitan elites is centuries-old: don’t ignore the people who toil on the land to produce your food....
...Context: Farmers have been demonstrating across the EU for more than a year now, blockading roads with tractors and throwing manure....
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