The Farmers' Front () was a group representing the French agrarian movement founded in 1934 consisting of the French Agrarian and Peasant Party, the Comités de défense paysanne, and the Union nationale des syndicats agricoles.
History Jacques Le Roy Ladurie served as its general secretary. It published the journal .
In the 1935 Loir-et-Cher by-election Henry Dorgères, the founder of the , stood unsuccessfully for the Loir-et-Cher department under the Farmers' Front banner, where he was narrowly defeated in the second round of voting by the Radical-Socialist Party candidate Émile Laurens.
The Farmers' Front's ambiguous attitude towards Republican institutions meant that it did not have support from the Croix de Feu.
The Farmers' Front fell apart in 1936 due to differences in political strategy.
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