It was in 2020-21. Maxime had been established on the family farm for 12 years, his partner Mathilde since 2016, when they suddenly lost 75 animals and saw their milk production drop from 29 to 12 liters per cow per day. Financial difficulties on the farm were not long in coming, and debts accumulated. Opening the mailbox had become a torment they constantly postponed out of fear of receiving more bills they couldn’t pay. So when they finally opened it, there was a stack of them! Maxime is aware of this, they had "waited too long." "The banks were putting pressure on us. We had to face our situation and finally put the numbers on the table." A friendly restructuring and safeguard were no longer possible, leaving only restructuring or legal liquidation. "Liquidation was out of the question!" his partner still firmly states today, even if restructuring also meant "the end of the farm" for her, at least at first. "I did a lot of work on myself," she acknowledges. "We could probably ...