After two days at sea we need some solid land under our feet, but this is probably the last thing you would have expected today! A column of John Deeres parked opposite the “Fortezza Vecchia”.
This is part of a day of protest by the Tuscan farmers against the crisis in the agriculture sector.
The head of the statue of Gran Duke Ferdinando I, on top of the Four Moors monument, is visible in the middle of the last photo.
I hope someone is listening to the farmers!
ReplyDeleteSome fine-looking machines there, VP. What's the crisis?
ReplyDeleteSurprising to see BIG John Deeres in Livorno! My father loves John Deere - I think he wanted to be buried with his John Deere lawn tractor!
ReplyDeleteThat must be quite a sight seeing all those big farm trucks protesting.
ReplyDeleteJust outside Stavanger farmers kids drive huge tractors to school when they are 16 years old! (Here you have to be 18 to drive a car.) Anyway, I got surprised to see your photos today. I hope the farmers were heard, not only seen by the public and those who "run" your city!
ReplyDeleteOh Deere!
ReplyDeleteWe rarely have protests here, so I'm always interested in the creative ways people make statements! But ofcourse I hope they will soon not have any reason to protest.
ReplyDeleteThough I love tractors (driving one is a childhood dream), I'll stay at sea...
ReplyDeleteI like the way your farmers protest. Here they usually BLOCK streets and roads, put fire to supermarkets or better still, spill hectolitres of milk onto the pavement.
This looks very festive for a protest. It's a good statement, though, since city people sometimes forget what is going on out in the countryside. I hope the politicians noticed all these big machines driving about!
ReplyDeleteNice photos, too. I especially liked the bottom one, comparing the car with the size of the long line of trucks.
Three Rivers Daily Photo
Impressionanti e bellissimi!
ReplyDeleteThis one was a quite sober protest, only some wheat was spilled. Few years ago, in Northern Italy, much worse fluids than milk were pumped by angry farmers on the police!
ReplyDeleteUnited they stand!
ReplyDeleteYou should be glad they don't protest like the French farmers.
ReplyDeleteWe might see John Deere trucks. But I could hardly imagine that farmers would be permitted to drive them into a city to protest. I can hardly imagine a protest here. A few. But very rarely.
ReplyDeleteI've heard about the French farmers' protest but this is the first I've heard about Italian farmers. Do they have similar problems about prices?
ReplyDeleteI'm glad to hear that they didn't waste much food.
Weird to see that there!! Strange!!
ReplyDeleteNo, I would not expect this. Its hard to imagine even with the photo!
ReplyDeleteWe've had such parades of tractors in Ottawa, too.
ReplyDeleteHere in Luxembourg they did a kind of this protest as well.
ReplyDeleteMy daughter did not go to school that day because the school was closed.
Léia
Looks like the protests are spreading in Europe. Last week it happened in Bucharest too.
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