As noted, this lockout is getting a very tepid turnout from actual farmers - in part because Fernández was careful enough to exclude 74% of them from this tax hike.
And in part because many of them will admit that as a group they're doing really well, and that under Macri they're weren't paying their fair share of taxes.
Eduardo Buzzi one of those who helped lead the massive lockouts in 2008, is probably the best known of the farm leaders who have come out in support in of the new policy.
He pointed out that farm leaders would do much better to negotiate more cost-sharing and better subsidies with the government, instead of becoming so hostile - least of all at a difficult time like this, what with the economic impact Covid has been having around the world.
Buzzi's a brave guy, considering how right-wing many of his fellow landowners are.
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