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France’s DNC Farm Crisis Deepens as A64 Blockades Persist and Paris Agriculture Show Bars Cattle From Affected Zones

Unions head into early‑January talks with the prime minister, seeking relief from a strategy they say is crushing farms.

Une cinquantaine d'agriculteurs avec une quinzaine de tracteurs ont bloqué mardi l'autoroute l’A64 au niveau de Cazères (Haute-Garonne).
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La CR 46 avait bloqué l’A20 et installé un campement, mi-décembre.
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Overview

  • Road actions continued in the southwest, with the A64 still disrupted near Tarbes and fresh mobilizations reported in Occitanie, including supermarket operations targeting imports.
  • Farm groups expect meetings with the prime minister on January 5–6 and are planning a renewed wave of protests in the first week of January, with a focus date of January 7.
  • Exports remain frozen for 45 days after vaccination and local livestock markets have halted in places, leaving breeders with mounting feed costs and cash‑flow strain.
  • The MSA has expanded psychological support after mass culls, warning of trauma and suicide risk among affected breeders, and is organizing peer and group counseling.
  • Cattle from regulated southwest zones will not qualify for the Paris Salon de l’Agriculture, as stabilization rules require very high vaccine coverage and 60 days without new cases, a threshold not reachable before the late‑February event.