Swiss farmers launch simultaneous SOS

Swiss farmers will launch a simultaneous SOS across the country on Thursday evening. The symbolic call for help will be made by tractors gathered in fields, mainly in French-speaking Switzerland. Around ten demonstrations had been announced by midday. “Between Echallens and Goumoëns, for example, we are expecting up to 500 tractors in a field” to form a life-size SOS, Arnaud Rochat, a farmer from Bavois, canton Vaud, and instigator of the Farmers’ Revolt Switzerland movement told the Swiss News Agency Keystone-ATS via a Facebook group. “It’s a simultaneous call for help.” In his view, the idea now is to mobilise farmers around targeted demands. On Thursday evening the price of milk will be the focus of attention ahead of the meeting of the Interprofession du Lait scheduled for the following day, at which the target price for milk will be set. “Farmers are calling for remunerative prices over the long term if our trade is to be viable. We want to be paid for what we produce, with ...