Anti-hail nets placed in a semicircle on a field of harvested wheat, white and black tarpaulins, compost and a few bales of straw. On the ground, it is difficult to realize the work carried out by the forty people mobilized since last weekend for this fresco in the Girard hamlet in Lorette. Laurent Fond, cattle breeder in Farnay, takes us to the heights thanks to an aerial platform: “there is the message “Tomorrow it’s your turn, a smiley with a small tractor, and we also wrote “agri 42″”details the farmer, while taking out his smartphone to keep a souvenir of his achievement.
The FNSEA present on the caravan for the first time
They are about forty to have worked on this fresco, with the FDSEA of the Loire and the Young farmers of the department. “We enjoyed participating because it allows us to give a good image of our profession, and it’s an opportunity to have a good time, it takes us out of our somewhat restrictive daily lives, especially this year given the economic situation. climatic”confides François Garrivier, vice-president of the FDSEA of the Loire.
This year, the agricultural union has chosen to communicate mainly on transmission. Even on the Tour caravan, where the FNSEA is present for the first time. Valentine Fayelle, a 22-year-old agricultural worker, was chosen for the stage between Le Bourg-d’Oisans and Saint-Étienne on Friday July 15. “It’s going to be great to promote agriculture, to remind everyone that we’re here to make everyone eat”, rejoices the young woman. The opportunity also, according to her, to highlight the place of women in agriculture: “I will be with a friend on the caravan, so it will be a bit of agricultural girl power!”
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