Overview

• FNSEA and Jeunes Agriculteurs led tractor convoys, supermarket label checks and rallies across France on 25–26 September.
• Protesters targeted the EU–Mercosur agreement, warning that duty‑free beef, poultry, sugar, honey and rice produced under weaker rules would depress prices.
• The European Commission opened ratification in early September and is seeking approval from EU governments and the European Parliament by December.
• In Hérault, a meeting with the prefect produced a suspension of farm inspections until 13 October and a deferral of non‑built land tax payments to 31 December, with a communal relief process planned.
• Turnout was uneven due to harvests, and unions split tactics, with Coordination rurale pursuing a meeting with Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu and the Confédération paysanne planning a 14 October Paris protest.