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Cyrille, farmer ... Farmer fallen on the ground

2020-02-25T16:00:06.562Z


This documentary by Rodolphe Marconi brings a touching note to exhausted breeders.


From 4 am to midnight or more, Cyrille does not stop. Alone to run the small family farm he took over after his father, at the bottom of Auvergne. Rodolphe Marconi's documentary, Cyrille, farmer, 30, 20 cows, milk, butter, debts, first follows this daily cycle. Feed, care, clean, maintain equipment, sell dairy products, buy new cows to replace those that die ...

We watch the young breeder accomplish the familiar work, with a great love of his animals, his only real company. After churning his butter, he will sell it at the market. Guaranteed success: it's the best butter around. But supply does not equal demand, Cyrille's small production, quickly exhausted, brings him very little.

Sober courage

Little by little, the social background appears: a judicial liquidation is initiated. Cyrille can no longer cope with the debt created by the 260,000 euro loan he had to contract to put

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Source: lefigaro

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