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Thousands of Spanish farmers stage a 2nd day of tractor protests over EU policies

By Ciarán Giles, Raf Cassert, Associated Press

Spanish farmers blocked highways and caused traffic jams to demand changes in European Union farming policies. They are also calling for more funds and measures to combat production cost hikes and severe drought.

EU scraps pesticide proposal in another concession to protesting farmers

By Raf Cassert, Associated Press

Farmers have insisted that measures like the one on pesticides would increase the bureaucratic burden and add to the price gap between their products and cheap foreign imports.

As Europe's farmers find common cause in grievances, governments race to offer concessions

By Derek Gatopoulos, Costas Kantouris, Associated Press

Protests have swept Europe as farmers on the continent take their grievances over inflation, foreign competition and the costs of combating climate change to the streets.

2 key French farmer unions suspend protests after government offers new measures

By Sylvie Corbet, Associated Press

Farmers have been protesting for days across the country to denounce low wages, heavy regulation and unfair competition from abroad.

Former Peruvian intelligence chief gets 19 years in prison for 1992 massacre of farmers

By Associated Press

Vladimiro Montesinos, the controversial intelligence chief of former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori, has been sentenced to 19 years and eight months in prison for the 1992 massacre of six farmers in the town of Pativilca.

Traffic-blocking farmers now closing in on EU capital in a protest seeking better market conditions

By Raf Cassert, Associated Press

The protests had an immediate impact. The European Commission announced plans to shield farmers from cheap exports from Ukraine during wartime and allow farmers to sidestep environmental rules.

France's government announces new measures to calm farmers' protests as blockades squeeze Paris

By Sylvie Corbet, Oleg Cetinic, Associated Press

France's newly appointed prime minister has announced controls on foreign food products in order to guarantee "fair competition," seeking to calm the anger of protesting farmers camped out around Paris.

German farmers and their tractors throng Berlin in protest against fuel subsidy cuts

By Geir Moulson, Associated Press

Over the past week, farmers have blocked highway entrances and slowed traffic across Germany with their protests, intent on pushing Chancellor Olaf Scholz's government to abandon the planned cuts entirely.

How rural communities are tackling a suicide and depression crisis among farmers

By Megan Thompson, Melanie Saltzman

More than 50,000 Americans took their own lives in 2023, the nation’s highest yearly rate of suicide on record. Farmers are 3.5 times more likely to die by suicide than the general population, according to the National Rural Health Association.

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German farmers block roads with tractors in protest of plan to scrap diesel tax breaks

By Geir Moulson, Associated Press

Chancellor Olaf Scholz's unpopular three-party coalition infuriated farmers last month by drawing up plans to abolish a car tax exemption for farming vehicles and the diesel tax breaks.