Sentence examples for farm union from inspiring English sources

Last week, the Breton branch of the main French farm union, the FNSEA, organised a football match for young farmers.

The offer won applause from farm union officials but raised questions about whether the European Union could keep a common agricultural policy in place.

According to the European farm union umbrella body, Cogeca, cooperatives control 60percentt of the collection, processing and marketing of all European agricultural products, an activity worth billions of euros.

Another European farm union organization, Copa-Cogeca, says that milk prices have plummeted 30percentt in a year and that dairy producers will lose up to 14 billion euros before the end of the year if nothing is done.

Matthiessen had moved politically to the left, opposing the Vietnam war and becoming involved with the farm union leader Cesar Chavez, the subject of his 1969 book Sal Si Puedes.

The country's biggest farm union, the FNSEA, has powerful regional roots and a lobbying network that stretches from local elected officials to senators, 8.5% of whom are farmers.Would any of this really be at risk if the protection that French farmers enjoy, through tariff barriers and direct subsidies, were radically dismantled?

The farm unions were quickly mollified by words of ministerial sympathy and by government pressure on the supermarkets to sign an agreement with the farm unions condemning "abusive commercial practices".

José Luis Solana, a professor of social anthropology at the University of Jaén, said that even if some of the claims made by the farm unions were questionable or exaggerated, "an agrarian reform and proper land distribution in Andalusia is one of the missing elements of our transition to democracy" — both in terms of social justice and improved economic efficiency.

Farm unions are keen to secure continued support payments from the UK government post-Brexit.

Instead, farmers are organising themselves politically, using Brazil's powerful farming union as a model.

'The people of Lussaud do not live,' said Michel Masson, vice-president of France's biggest farming union, 'they survive.