Haute-Saône. Livestock Festival: Celebrating, Haute-Saône agriculture is recruiting and offering more than 120 positions

Until Sunday at Lake Vesoul-Vaivre (beach side), the livestock festival showcases the department's finest animals until Sunday evening. This ^7th edition focuses on recruitment. Farm workers and agricultural mechanics are in high demand.

Augustin, 12, and Antoine Marchal, 22, present their cow, Petitelulue, from Liévans. Augustin is participating in the cow-herding competition. Held every three years, the livestock festival runs until Sunday, May 11, at Lake Vesoul-Vaivre. Photo by Édouard Choulet — Augustin, 12, and Antoine Marchal, 22, present their cow, Petitelulue, from Liévans. Augustin is participating in the cow-driving competition. Held every three years, the livestock festival runs until Sunday, May 11, at Lake Vesoul-Vaivre. Photo by Édouard Choulet

Calves comfortably lying in the straw to welcome visitors. Enough to touch their hearts. And gleaming tractors parked near the lake to amaze them. The livestock festival began yesterday and continues until Sunday on the shores of Lake Vaivre, on the beach side.

Agriculture today is a blend of ancestral know-how and concentrated technology. This is what this event, an open-air farm that welcomes 200 animals and 80 breeders for three days, aims to demonstrate.

In addition to the presence of Montbéliarde cows, Prim-Holsteins, Comtois horses, a few chickens and a sheep - the famous Armand , star of the Agricultural Show - it was that of the Minister of Agriculture Annie Genevard , on Friday, May 9, which made the aisles tremble. The minister is...

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