Stéphane Gallais, a cattle farmer and the national secretary of farmers' union Confédération Paysanne, which had organised the event, explained why it was being held.

Cattle farmer Matthew Iceton from Eggleston in County Durham denied having a mullet at all, despite a clear resemblance.

In February, cattle farmer Mike Curtis showed me his fields, six feet underwater.

Mr Thomas used to be a beef and cattle farmer but has diversified, growing 500,000 Christmas trees, along with fields of lavender, sunflowers and pumpkins through the year.

"The earth shook," says cattle farmer Win Zaw, recalling the sunny morning last week when he heard a military aircraft approaching, and then an explosion.