Behind European Farmers Protests: Anger, Hardship and No Easy Answers

PARIS - French cereal grower Jerome Regnault has spent years explaining his profession, as co-founder of a nonprofit to educate consumers about agriculture, and as a local lawmaker for the Ile-de-France region surrounding Paris.

But last week, he chose to communicate another way - firing up his tractor to join a spreading farmers' protest in France and across the European Union.

'It's been several years sin