Kolostrum tells the story of the daily lives of dairy cow farming families in the north of France, whose farming systems fall somewhere between small autonomous farms and large agri-businesses.
The series is based on a modern sociological observation: the current lack of interest in farming as a profession. Only one farm in four is taken over today. In France, 55% of farmers are at least 50 years old, and in the next 5 to 10 years, half of them will be retiring. Only one in five is under 40, and one in three of them is a woman.
But beyond the moribund observations and the often unjustified preconceptions that our asceptised society unfairly casts on the profession, Kolostrum is a celebration of life, death and matter, of which the farmer is the humble craftsman.
