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Brabant agrees to stricter livestock policy

8 July 2017 - Esther de Snoo - 12 comments

The States of Brabant have approved the policy proposals of the provincial government to accelerate the sustainability of livestock farming, improve nature and the living environment and provide more space for innovative livestock farmers and economic growth for other sectors.

The new rules take effect immediately. This means that according to estimates; an additional 6% of pig farms will have to close down quickly. That is 1% extra for the dairy farms in Brabant. 
It is the outcome of a marathon debate that lasted more than 12 hours and ended after midnight. At the request of the CDA, both proposals were voted by roll call. 

Nature Protection Regulation adopted
The outcome of the roll-call vote on the Nature Conservation Regulation is 32 in favor and 22 against. The policy has been adopted despite much criticism in the States. The implementation of the policy is insufficient according to almost all Parliamentary groups.


Accelerated modernization
As a result, livestock farmers with outdated barns have to modernize them more quickly. Companies that already comply must comply with the Nature Protection Regulation by 1 January 2022 at the latest. This used to be 2028. Houses that do not yet comply must have been adapted as of 1 January 2020.

Ordinance space adopted
The Spatial Regulation has been adopted in which the parking policy and manure processing rules are the most drastic. Parliament also adopted this policy proposal with 31 in favor and 22 against. 


Stalking
Stalling means that a farmer may only expand with stables if stables elsewhere in the same area are demolished. When 10 square meters of stables are newly built, 11 square meters must be demolished in the same area. This rule does not apply to dairy cattle, sheep and minks. 

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anton 8 July 2017
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companies are already going to the buttons with this policy when will this stop or will the entire livestock industry have to bow to nature.
Jan Veltkamp 8 July 2017
@Anton. Van Aartsen once said at a public meeting (and was later also in the news) that the goal is to make the Netherlands the New York of the EU. In NY you will find little or no livestock farming and that is why this does not fit in NL. Why did you think that investments are made in international court (which nobody listens to), offices for multinationals (such as if that means tax evasion), last year's meeting in The Hague for safety, etc., etc. That ultimately also related to livestock farming industry such as milking robots, ventilation systems, construction and furnishing of feed factories and slaughterhouses, bulk trucks, etc., etc., disappear from NL, which is subordinate to that.
mdb 8 July 2017
I let them make and grow their own food!
For me it doesn't have to be this way anymore... disgusting is the only good word.

Dutch farmers have to make way for other sectors, it is a great shame. One lie is made by another deception!

People think their food grows in the supermarket, I really hope the shelves are empty at some point!
Gerda Fier 8 July 2017
Sad, seen years ago London where the agricultural sector was taunted and cheated by the politics and citizens of EK. Sad, for the citizen who doesn't know that food, leftovers of the tasty Dutch potato, peeling leftovers of prepared food, fries and beer will have to be burned after the expiry date. That costs money!! Because the business community will calculate it through the Retail. Only the lied citizen will soon complain that he did not know that. Everything can be more expensive for me. Enjoying when wrong food enters our country.
West Brabant 8 July 2017
The bear is loose, the provincial government has got the hang of it, the other agricultural sectors will now also have a lot to do with it.
shared smart 9 July 2017
Perhaps you should have listened to the fur farmers. It was their turn first and often enough warned that this was the beginning of the reorganization of the animal husbandry without compensation. Within 5 years every cow will be outside.
Send 9 July 2017
Pure discrimination against a population group. This is the main reason that any successors do not present themselves and this has been happening for decades. The shore turns every ship regardless of the size of the ocean. Conducting policy without evidence only happens in dictatorships. Democracy has long been dead to agriculture.
info 9 July 2017
The mayors of Brabant have been dealing with the problem of weed production in abandoned stables for some time now, that is not going to get any less with these measures, a farmer remains an entrepreneur and will always look for a form of self-sufficiency
The fact that the case has been solved with 10% fewer animals is of course just a joke, as entrepreneurs we should have cleaned up the houses that became available because a neighbor stopped working so that no non-farmers could sit next to you, not this one. farmers are the cause of all the inconvenience, only how now because they keep on nagging. They do not realize that the farmer offers the Netherlands prosperity and that they also benefit from it.
Father Piet 10 July 2017
If only I had voted for the CDA or for the SGP, but no, Brabant also had to show that it was possible without Christian. Yes, among the farmers, the vote did not go to the CDA but to other parties.
Now you are in the grip of the farmer killers!!!
dirk 10 July 2017
There is also another side of the matter, pig farming has been going the wrong way for years in terms of how society views us.

The fact that the media is largely left-oriented contributes strongly to this, but we have to deal with that.

The fact is that we ourselves just go crazy as sectors and are not prepared to renovate the sectors.
An entrepreneur is not going to make it by continuing to do as he is used to, but by responding to changes....and that's where we left it.
Very good that we got spanked that will teach us to let go of arrogance!
I would also like it to be different, but we just live in a country full of empowered citizens and a left-wing bureaucracy and media.
j. willems 11 July 2017
What does PATER PIET mean by farmer killers? It was not the farmers, but cattle-manufacturers, who put those dirty beasts among the citizens in abundance! When PATER PIET uses the word murder, he should think carefully about those fake Christians from CDA, or the Party of Q fever, with those Qlinq and Verburq! Yes, those 2 who went to the cathedral to pray so obediently for the poor kids, and in the meantime kept silent while the greatest disaster after the flood took place, with tens to possibly 10s killed as a result. And SGP/CU, you with your nagging about "family farms", just think**** about those 100s of families, who are victims of deaths, illnesses and lifelong disability through the livestock industry, partly facilitated by you, in the midst of Human. Are you so biblical? Then you probably know the following expressions: brood of vipers, white-washed tombs, hypocrites and Pharisees, I take it????
peta 11 July 2017
Dear Mr. Mrs. Willems, my sincere condolences, you or your loved ones have apparently been hit very hard.
However, you forget that a number of animal diseases can be transmitted to humans as long as humans have existed. Does this mean we should exterminate all mammals?
We also know that intensive livestock farming releases particulate matter, just like with pets in a house, does this mean that we are going to ban all pets?
Roads and aviation release even worse particulate matter, namely particulate matter containing PCBs. Are we going to scrap all cars and planes now? And the last question, I assume you don't own any pets or car, and you never travel by air?
Sorry, but I, as a non-livestock farmer, had to get this out. The truth lies somewhere in the middle and in this country we will have to make it together and with respect for each other. And respect also includes those who provide you with everything you put in your mouth, not to be so disrespectful and hostile. If they aren't there. were you also had no right to exist..
And there is no risk-free life on our earth.
peta 11 July 2017
Dear Mr. Mrs. Willems, my sincere condolences, you or your loved ones have apparently been hit very hard.
However, you forget that a number of animal diseases can be transmitted to humans as long as humans have existed. Does this mean we should exterminate all mammals?
We also know that intensive livestock farming releases particulate matter, just like with pets in a house, does this mean that we are going to ban all pets?
Roads and aviation release even worse particulate matter, namely particulate matter containing PCBs. Are we going to scrap all cars and planes now? And the last question, I assume you don't own any pets or car, and you never travel by air?
Sorry, but I, as a non-livestock farmer, had to get this out. The truth lies somewhere in the middle and in this country we will have to make it together and with respect for each other. And respect also includes those who provide you with everything you put in your mouth, not to be so disrespectful and hostile. If they aren't there. were you also had no right to exist..
And there is no risk-free life on our earth.
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