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<p>While Charolais livestock farming is often seen as a jewel in the crown of French agriculture, it is nevertheless going through a serious crisis, linked to seventy years of agrarian trajectories focussed on maximising the number of calvings per worker. This publication sets out to show how the increase in volumes produced per unit of labour was to the detriment of creating value added. This is demonstrated by reconstructing long-term statistical series (1968–2023) from the Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) and through semi-structured interviews conducted in the Charolais region. Seventy years of contradictory changes in physical and economic labour productivity are therefore examined. These materials have been linked together using an analytical framework conceived for the needs of this study, including a theoretical component which combines concepts from comparative agriculture with those of regulation theory. This analytical framework makes it possible to understand, period by period, how and why the net value added created by Charolais livestock farmers fell so sharply (− 80% in constant currency between 1968 and&#xa0;2023), reaching a situation where public subsidies are now a key source of farm income.</p>

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Increased volumes produced at the cost of value added: the case of the Charolais Basin (1950 to present day)

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    2026年4月29日

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  • Jonathan Dubrulle

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While Charolais livestock farming is often seen as a jewel in the crown of French agriculture, it is nevertheless going through a serious crisis, linked to seventy years of agrarian trajectories focussed on maximising the number of calvings per worker. This publication sets out to show how the increase in volumes produced per unit of labour was to the detriment of creating value added. This is demonstrated by reconstructing long-term statistical series (1968–2023) from the Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) and through semi-structured interviews conducted in the Charolais region. Seventy years of contradictory changes in physical and economic labour productivity are therefore examined. These materials have been linked together using an analytical framework conceived for the needs of this study, including a theoretical component which combines concepts from comparative agriculture with those of regulation theory. This analytical framework makes it possible to understand, period by period, how and why the net value added created by Charolais livestock farmers fell so sharply (− 80% in constant currency between 1968 and 2023), reaching a situation where public subsidies are now a key source of farm income.