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From white-linen tablecloth restaurants to a local burger joint, potatoes for food service make up an estimated 55% of all potato crops sold in the US. But according to Business Insider, American farmers are now stuck with billions of pounds of potatoes they can't sell--or easily dispose of. The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in the closure of hundreds of thousands of restaurants and other cooked food outlets. That meant potato orders to farmers virtually stopped, leading farms across the country with piles of rotting produce. In Idaho, for example, the going rate for a sack of potatoes has gone from $12 to $3--and it takes a rate of at least $5 a sack for most farmers to break even. All in all, an estimated 1.5 billion pounds of potatoes are trapped in the supply chain across the US.
The 2024 Michelin Guide has awarded a third star to Jerome Banctel's restaurant Le Gabriel in Paris and, in a rare move, three stars in one go for the reopening of La Table du Castellet in south-east France, led by 35-year-old chef Fabien Ferre. IMAGES
French Ecology Minister Christophe Bechu and Agriculture Minister Marc Fesneau are booed and hissed at at the Paris international Agricultural Show by around twenty people shouting "Fesneau resign" and holding up signs reading "Come back down to earth", as the two ministers are forced to leave the stand of Ademe, the French Environment and Energy Management Agency. IMAGES
Two days before the end of the Paris International Agricultural Show, a convoy of twenty tractors led by activists from the farmers union the Coordination rurale is parked in front of the Palace of Versailles. "We're continuing the movement because we're not being heard (...), we've got band-aids and little envelopes of cash, but that's not going to move things forward," laments Nicolas Bonguay, president of the CR in the Doubs region of eastern France. (COMPLETES VID34KC4MQ_EN) IMAGES
French farmers block traffic around Paris's famed Arc de Triomphe monument with tractors and bales of hay. IMAGES
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