The House of Representatives wants the latest harvesting date for potatoes on sand and loess to be postponed by two weeks. A motion for this was submitted by the BBB and SGP was adopted by the House of Representatives this afternoon. Potatoes should have been harvested before October 1, but due to the wet and late spring, this date was seen as unrealistic by growers and processors.
Recent research from Wageningen University shows that more nitrogen is absorbed when sowing catch crops in the second half of October compared to the proposed reduction in the nitrogen use standard, the motion states. That is why MPs Caroline van der Plas (BBB) and Roelof Bisschip (SGP) requested that the harvest be made before October 1 and that the catch crop that must be sown afterwards be postponed by two weeks.
Yesterday it was announced that Minister Adema has postponed the latest harvest date for maize in the provinces of Drenthe, Groningen and Friesland from October 1 to October 10.
Minister's response will follow
The government did not actually want to postpone the deadline because, according to them, scientific research has shown that the earlier the catch crop is sown, the more effective it is in capturing nitrogen. After the motion on the harvest date of potatoes was adopted, Van der Plas asked the minister to provide a quick response. After all, it will be October 1 in a few days. Adema has promised to submit a letter this week after the signal from the House.
The House of Representatives wants to get rid of calendar farming
The House wants to get rid of so-called 'calendar agriculture' completely. This was evident from several adopted motions, including one in which the House asks the government to fully focus on target regulations instead of means regulations in the 8th Nitrate Directive action program yet to be drawn up. The current manure rules lead to a calendar on which farmers must take some form of action on almost sixty dates in connection with manure legislation, the CAP, or other matters, according to the petitioners, Thom van Campen (VVD) and Van der Plas (BBB). Farmers do not work with a government calendar, but with the conditions of nature and these product regulations - such as the October 1 harvesting date for ware potatoes - are counterproductive, because potatoes are not yet ripe and will still absorb nitrogen if they remain in the ground longer, it says. in the motion that can count on a majority.
The House also requests the government to expand the (agricultural) measuring network with which water quality is measured and to adjust the measuring frequencies in such a way that there is clear insight into the effects of the measures in the 7th AP, including the early harvesting of crops.
The House also wants the government to consult with the sector about proposals put forward by the sector itself, such as an obligation to sow catch crops as an alternative to the discount on the nitrogen application when harvesting in October on sand and loess, possibly supplemented with other mitigating measures. measures. Preferably with a view to next year and in any case in the run-up to the 8th AP.
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You must have sprayed your potatoes 2 weeks ago to legally harvest them before October 1
Calendar farming smells like communism. And indeed let her buy all those edges and edges first. From one day to the next they take part of the land out of production without compensation? It's surprising that there hasn't been much action against this
I don't think the nitrate solution is to just grow premieres, zorbas or anostas.
These are certainly not storage potatoes. We are doing a good job, when the potatoes are ripe we spray them and immediately add green manure after harvesting, regardless of dates. Then little N is lost. Just common common sense, that will get you the furthest.