Agricultural crisis: Jerome Bayle, one of the movement’s leading figures, is “ready to start over”

“We’re ready to start again.” This is what Jérôme Bayle, the farmer who launched the agricultural anger movement, insists into the microphone of BFMTV when the government presents this Wednesday a bill aimed at improving the situation of farmers. “Of course, nothing is ruled out. I have said it from the very beginning: farmers will not die with their mouths open,” added the cattle farmer from Haute-Garonne.

Already since Tuesday, Breton farmers have mobilized in Côte-d’Armor at the call of FNSEA, the main agricultural union, to denounce the non-payment of state aid promised by the government.

According to Jérôme Bayle, “If the state really wants to help the farmers, shouldn’t they go and knock on the doors of large groups and tell them: now you are also going to help us and stop bleeding French farmers? “According to him, oil companies have recently increased margins on off-highway diesel (OGD), a fuel for agricultural machinery, while lower prices have been one of the main demands of the movement in recent times.

“We ask that we can live with dignity thanks to our profession”

“We are not asking for financial resources, we are asking for us to be able to live with dignity while practicing our profession, for everyone to stop making money off the backs of farmers, for farmers to stop being taxed at 50 or 60%… That would help us! “, He said.

However, Jerome Bayle advocates the continuation of negotiations between trade union organizations and the government. “We realize that we will not save French agriculture in one week, 15 days, two months, three months! »

The text presented by the government provides, among other things, about sixty commitments to emergency funds, simplifications, and a “pause” in the development of a plan to reduce the use of pesticides. “The bill will appear when the law on agrarian orientation is adopted. When the decrees are completed,” Agriculture Minister Mark Fesno promised during the FNSEA congress.