Mike Pearson takes a look at recent European Union farmer protests there.
2024 is a big election year in the European Union. Ahead of the elections, European farmers have been staging protests over a number of issues. They have ranged from declining commodity prices to climbing input prices to objections over proposed environmental regulations.
Those protests are about to start bearing fruit as policy makers have began pulling back on several environmental initiatives.
In Brussels, at the European Union headquarters, farmers drove tractors through the center of the city and spread manure on…
