Châtaigneraie/région de Saint-Flour : Trajectoires contrastées de bassins laitiers de moyenne montagne
The article deals with the differentiated evolution of the two largest dairy basins in a mid-mountain department: Cantal. Châtaigneraie, in the southwest, was the prototype of the new dairy region, built by the agricultural revolution from 1960. The Saint-Flour region, more complex, combines areas t...
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Institut de Géographie Alpine
2025-02-01
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| Series: | Revue de Géographie Alpine |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/rga/14273 |
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| Summary: | The article deals with the differentiated evolution of the two largest dairy basins in a mid-mountain department: Cantal. Châtaigneraie, in the southwest, was the prototype of the new dairy region, built by the agricultural revolution from 1960. The Saint-Flour region, more complex, combines areas that had switched to milk from the 1930s (Planèze) and others (Margeride), specialized much later (1970s). These two regions, disrupted by milk quotas (1984), have since experienced paths that are both similar (dairy restructuring, transition to breastfeeding, maintaining significant production) and differentiated. Châtaigneraie appears today as a hesitant region, ‘searching for itself’, while the Saint-Flour region seems to maintain better dairy dynamics. The article shows that these two regions have indeed remained intensive production basins, marked by continued agricultural modernization (increase in milk yields, development of corn in the East…), but with complex orientations which combine corn silage and natural meadow, standard and AOP milk, as well as big factories and artisanal cheese shop. |
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| ISSN: | 0035-1121 1760-7426 |