In Brive, it is a small institution, the fat fairs start this SaturdayHalle Brassens. 6 meetings are scheduled until March 1st. First good news in the run-up to the Christmas holidays: “ there will be a normal year in foie gras productioncustomers do not need to worry, all the merchandise will be there,” explains Bertrand Yssartier, goose producer in Noailhac and president of the Limousin goose and duck producers' union:
“For these fat fairs, we are expecting a very good year. We took stock with our colleagues, everyone has brought in their ducks and geese, production is there, so it promises a very good season”
24 producers from Lot, Dordogne and Corrèze will be present for 6 Saturdays, Halle Brassens. Among them, Corentin Masdupuy21 years old, he is a producer in Allassac: “I am joining the company with my parents, I am succeeding my grandmother and we are going to develop the duck activity, This year we are arriving at the Brive fairs which we stopped 10 years ago »
“We have know-how, it is not always perpetuated and today in the region, we have a motivated buyer and we will welcome him with pleasure this Saturday, for the first fair of the year, at the “historic location where his grandmother was” is satisfied Jean Luc Souquières, the municipal councilor responsible for fairs and markets at Brive town hall.
“There is still a little pressure to do the best possibleto satisfy customers as best as possible” adds Corentin Masdupuy.
A promising meeting
The Brive fairs attract audiences from all over France: “some take advantage of the market like every Saturday, but others only come as part of the fairs to stock up on fat” explains Jean-Luc Souquières. “They will not buy their duck, their goose, their liver, their sleeve or quite simply a carcass to make a good soup anywhere other than at the Brive fat fairs.”
The 6 meetings
- Saturday November 23, Opening Fair
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Saturday December 7, Award-winning geese and ducks, livers and whole animals fair
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Saturday December 14, Award-winning capon fair
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Saturday January 11, 2025, Fair of Kings with free canning and award-winning truffle competition
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Saturday February 1st, Award-winning fair for livers and whole animals, ducks and geese
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Saturday March 1st, Fair of traders and fat producers
Avian flu will not get the better of the Fairs Grasses
The specter of bird flu just resurfaced 10 days ago, with new restrictions. But no direct impact is expected today during the fairs, just a little annoyance about the confinement explains Bertrand Yssartier, president of the Limousin goose and duck producers' union.
« Well now we're used to it, it's the 5thme year, we went into high-risk restriction so we are forced to confine the animals. But apart from that, for the moment everything is calm. »
« Athen there is a littlegacement, some breeders say that confinement is necessary, others that less is necessary. Well we are lucky in Corrèze for being an area where we n’ does not have a huge production, we are very far from each other so it is true that we could afford to be less confined than a region like in the Landes or the Gers where there are much more numerous ».
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