[HIGHLIGHTS] Saved by the rain, farmers in Eure obtained one more month from the State to trim their hedges

Farmers have until April 16 to carry out pruning, normally prohibited from March 15 until August 15. In the Eure, they owe it to the heavy rains in winter which disrupted the agricultural calendar.

Individuals are also encouraged not to touch the hedges but without obligation, which has the gift of arousing the anger of farmers, who are threatened with severe repression from the French Biodiversity Office in the event of transgression. “The date of March 15 was inapplicable anyway since we were unable to work this winter. It was important that the State concretely materializes an adaptation of the Agricultural calendar,” summarized Gilles Lievins, president of the Eury Chamber of Agriculture.