Don't be surprised if you're held up by a queue of tractors today as France's farmers take to the streets to protest against the falling prices of their products.
Farmers protested across western France on Monday, blocking off several major roads and demanding action over a financial situation they say is "becoming critical".
A farmer in south western France has been told to pay damages to a pair of thieves, whose vehicle he destroyed with a mechanical digger while they were trying to rob him.
UPDATED: Up to 1,700 tractors along with thousands of furious farmers descended on Paris on Thursday in a show of force to raise attention to their plight. Motorists have been told to stay off the roads.
UPDATED: A convoy of around 1,000 tractors carrying hundreds of disgruntled French farmers is heading in the direction of Paris where they plan to bring travel chaos to the French capital on Thursday in a bid to raise attention to their desperate plight.
Visitors to France may have cursed the striking French farmers who recently blocked towns and tourists attractions with piles of manure, but the French public are 100 percent behind them. Well almost.
The French government needs to take a leaf out of the book of the nation's fabled disciplinarian parents when it comes to dealing with rebellious strikers, argues Martin Dixon director of the Franco-British Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
UPDATED: French farmers said on Monday they had blocked and turned back as many as 300 trucks importing food from Germany, the latest protest against a fall in food prices.
French farmers took their protests into a fourth day on Thursday with road blocks set up around the second city of Lyon. President François Hollande tried to ease the crisis by meeting union leaders.
The French government Wednesday unveiled a package worth more than €600 million ($655 million) for farmers, after days of protests that have blocked cities, roads and tourist sites. Some farmers have threatened to continue blockades.
Struggling French farmers who say their livelihoods are threatened by low prices stepped up their protests on Wednesday as the government comes under pressure to find a solution to the crisis.
France's leaders have called on the public to eat as much "Made in France" meat as possible to help save the livelihoods of the country's struggling farmers, who protested on Monday by setting up a blockade around a Normandy town.
Tyres were set on fire, roads were blocked and manure dumped outside supermarkets on Thursday as thousands of struggling French farmers, angry at low prices, staged protests across the country.
VIDEO: "Nono" the pig squealer from northern France has done it again. His impression of a breastfeeding pig won him the top prize for the sixth year in a row at France's annual agricultural fair in Paris.
Organizers at the Paris's annual Agricultural Fair have decided to cut short the key night-time show after past years have seen drunken visitors pestering the animals.
France must repay the EU €1.07 billion ($1.2 billion) in agricultural aid paid to farmers due to fraud and mistakes over a four-year period, the European Commission said on Tuesday.
When this year’s Miss France was crowned on Saturday night, members of the country’s agricultural community were getting excited about a whole different kind of pageant. The very first Miss France Farmer took place promising to show "what real French beauty looks like".
Sheep grazed around the Eiffel Tower on Thursday as angry French farmers flocked to the capital to express their frustration over increasing attacks by wolves which some say have been "overprotected" by the government.
A group of French farmers came under fire on Thursday after a video emerged that showed them kicking and abusing animals at a demonstration in the western city of Nantes.
