FARMERS blocked roads on the Belgium-Netherlands border today, choking freight from the ports of Antwerp and Rotterdam bound for destinations across Europe.

And they tightened a blockade of the Zeebrugge port, blocking British produce as well as unrelated imports, mainly cars.

The blockades, coming a day after farmers protested in Brussels, hurling firecrackers and eggs at the European Parliament, show the revolt by farmers over rising costs and falling living standards is far from over despite wide-ranging concessions by the EU and multiple member states.