in Indre, a year 2024 of all-out mobilizations

This year again, the agricultural world as a whole has suffered greatly. In Indre, he made his voice heard, stepping up to the plate on numerous occasions throughout the year.

Numerous and very varied actions

In a context of inflation and falling grain prices, farmers wanted to make their anger heard by the State, in the face of what they consider to be an accumulation of constraints: “standards”, “taxes”, “administrative obligations”etc. Their movement of anger, launched in the South-West by the Rural Coordination, was relayed in Indre, first by the tandem of the FDSEA.

Blockage of the A20 for a long week

On January 24, the two unions initiated a blockade of the A20 at Châteauroux with around a hundred agricultural vehicles coming from throughout the department. A blockage which will last a long week, and which will be followed by a series of announcements from the prefect of Indre…

But also through other diverse and varied actions, throughout the year: product traceability operation in supermarkets, at the end of January; installation of municipal signs on the prefecture gates in October; fires of anger on roundabouts, snail operation on the A20 and erection of a wall of straw bales in front of the entrance to the administrative city, in November…

The Coordination rurale accompanied a gigantic procession of tractors coming from the South-West on the road and on the return from the Rungis market to Paris in January. In September, she claimed responsibility for the installation of hostile tarpaulins against an elected official from Argenton involved in a water development and management plan (Sage) which crystallized tensions in Vienne. And, in November, it covered radars with tarpaulins and tires.

For its part, the Peasant Confederation went, in January, “make noise without annoying people” in front of the E. Leclerc center in Cap Sud, in Saint-Maur. In May, several of its members also went to the National Services and Payment Agency based in Limoges to denounce the delay in payments of Pac aid, particularly for organic farming. Finally, in December, she also organized a free tasting of local products in front of the Châteauroux Christmas market, and asked the prefect for direct and rapid aid.

Visiting national representatives

While this year 2025 will begin with the elections of the chambers of agriculture, the national representatives of several unions took the lead, at the end of 2024, by starting to campaign in rural departments. Particularly in Indre, which for example saw Arnaud Rousseauthe president of the powerful FNSEA, come to attend, in April, the general assembly of the local FDSEA, or even Véronique Le Floc'hnational president of Rural Coordination, who came in October to hold a meeting on a farm in Prissac.

A new president for the JA

After two years at the head of the Young Farmers of Indre, co-presidents Florian Chateigner and Damien Boissier passed the torch to Mélanie Soulas-BarraultThursday March 14, 2024, during the union's board of directors meeting. The poultry breeder from Saint-Août notably succeeded in obtaining a prestigious sponsor for Terr'Agri 2024 in the person of Freddy Boucher, the record holder for participation in the show Koh Lanta !

Historically low participation at the Agricultural Show

This year again, the participation of Indre in the largest agricultural event in France was reduced to nothing… For the first time, the department did not even present any cattle breeder in competition, whether in Charolais or in limousines ! But the meeting remains appreciated by producers who find it a great showcase. It is also now frequented by young people from Naturapoliswho participated for the second time in a row in the International Trophy for Agricultural Establishments (TIEA)… and who will, in 2025, have a third consecutive participation!

Catastrophic harvests

The particularly rainy summer was not without consequences on the farms of Indre which reported harvests well below average for cereal growers, according to the president of the chamber, several union representatives and a farmer that At NO had met. Same disillusioned observation on the side of sunflower harvesters…