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The Sagnes tomme wants its PDO: what it costs, what it earns
Eleven producers, 96 tonnes a year, a PDO application lodged in 2024. Set the cost of the specification against the premium per kilo, and two of the eleven do not cover their costs. They know it.
Written by Théo Brissac14 April 2026
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She took over the Sagnes farm alone, with no cattle in the family
No farm in the family, no land, no herd: in 2021 she took on the 42 cows of Les Sagnes with a financial structure nobody in the valley had tried. Five years on, the structure is holding. Only just.
Written by Camille Fournier-Braud24 February 2026

The Sagnes tomme wants its PDO: what it costs, what it earns