"ser agricultor" in English

Hence each individual shareholder has to be accepted as one farmer.

Mr President, Commissioner, ladies and gentlemen, 50 years ago, in 1961, I began my training to be a farmer.

There is no need for me to remind you that a strong agricultural lobby exists, to which I, as a farmer, also belong.

Farming is an admirable occupation, but you have to really love it to want to become a farmer today, and unfortunately, love does not pay the bills!

We have used the Habitat Directive for many years to encourage the Member States to designate appropriate sites in their territory, whilst assuring them that funding would be guaranteed.

One need only be a farmer in anew Member State to be deprived of any chance of obtaining support, no matter how justified such support would be.

What is perhaps missing, Commissioner, is a little more attention to people, to farmers themselves, who are still somewhat unprepared for all these developments.

How will it reflect on the agricultural profession as a whole and how will it be for the European agricultural model and its justification if we cannot have a decision on a matter of this sort?

That would be like having a discussion on agricultural policy in the context of economic policy in which every farmer asks whether his son can still be a farmer in the future.