Because People Need to Eat, European Agriculture Is Making a Right Turn
By Ward Clark | 4:45 PM on June 03, 2024
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I come from a long line of farmers. My Dad farmed much of his life, my paternal grandfather farmed until he decided to change course in about 1932 and become a Ford mechanic, and my maternal grandfather farmed all his life. I grew up in farm country, and a lot of the friends of my youth were from farm families.
Farming, then, is a topic that is kind of dear to me, although I harbor no starry-eyed illusions about the "family farm," as farming is a business, not a holy calling, and business models change; large-scale corporate farming is taking over, and it is doing reasonably well at delivering foodstuffs in the proper quantities, in the proper varieties, and in the proper intervals to support our increasingly urban population around the world.
Now, I told you that so I could tell you this: In the EU, the dabbling in "green" practices has harmed agricultural outputs, so it's good to see that the EU is at least slowing down the implementation of green agriculture and, in so doing, basically telling the climate scolds to get a grip.
If you think farming policy in the European Union isn’t green enough, don’t hold your breath for the next five years.
The agriculture committee (AGRI) in the most recent European Parliament was known for leaning conservative, especially compared to the environment committee (ENVI), with the two clashing over the EU's green farming agenda, the Farm to Fork strategy. AGRI was also strongly pro-farmer — due in large part to the number of farmers who served on it.
Next month’s European election could return a more right-wing assembly to oversee the EU’s €387 billion farm budget, according to POLITICO’s Poll of Polls. At the same time, Green Party lawmakers — the most vocal supporters of the Green Deal — could lose up to a third of their seats, while the number of Socialist and Liberal MEPs could also shrink.
What does this mean for European agriculture?
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