The agricultural representatives who form the Agricultural Collective will organize the partnership in a different way. The name Agricultural Collective is no longer used as such and there is little or no communication under it.
This is reported by sources within the current Agricultural Collective. The starting point in the renewed collaboration is that each party determines its own momentum for communicating its own story. This involves learning from past experiences. For example, it has emerged that harmonizing a joint press statement with everyone's consent is an unfeasible card.
The idea is that within the partnership policy topics are coordinated beforehand, because it is better to discuss conflicting interests (for example the lack of land or phosphate rights) beforehand than afterwards. The 13 different interest groups have set themselves the goal of strengthening each other in the general agricultural interest. Any activity that detracts from this, for example losing energy on drafting a joint statement, is avoided.
Broad consultation in the pipeline
A small part of the 13 collaborating agricultural groups met yesterday (Tuesday 19 May) in preparation for a broad consultation in which all 13 organizations will participate, including LTO. That meeting is scheduled for next week. Until then, no announcements will be made about the new name of the Agricultural Collective, the way in which the collaboration will be shaped in the future and what role may or may not be played by the current chairman Aalt Dijkhuizen.
Operating as an Agricultural Collective became difficult, because LTO could no longer unite with the joint action and announced 2 weeks ago to leave the pact in its current form.
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