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Farmers' advocates sign 'legendary pact'

25 October 2019 - Wouter Baan - 19 comments

Farmers' interests within all sectors want to jointly form 1 front in the nitrogen dossier. That intention was expressed yesterday on a specially arranged evening for this, according to a letter from Farmers Defense Force. The organization speaks of a 'legendary step'.

Last night (Thursday 24 October) all parties in the Dutch farmers' advocacy group put their heads together. 'With the exception of a single cancellation, all sectors were within livestock farming, intensive livestock farming, arable farming, fruit growing, unions, LTO, FDF and Agractie', FDF reports.

According to FDF, all organizations see the need and the willingness to form a united front to 'fight shoulder to shoulder now and in the future for the importance and survival of the Dutch agricultural sector.' 

In the coming period, contacts will be further strengthened in order to further elaborate the plans. 'But the intention has been expressed to work together from now on; stop letting us play against each other and tackle threats, challenges and opportunities together. A legendary step in the history of the Dutch agricultural sector', writes FDF.

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Wouter Baan is editor-in-chief of Boerenbusiness. He also focuses on dairy, pig and meat markets. He also follows (business) developments within agribusiness and interviews CEOs and policymakers.
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19 comments
Herm 25 October 2019
This is in response to it Boerenbusiness article:
[url=http://www.boerenbusiness.nl/artikel/10884456/boerenbelangenbe recoveryers-close-legendary-pact]Farmers' interest representatives conclude 'legendary pact'[/url]
This is the beginning of success.
loom 25 October 2019
neat. That which unites us is stronger than what divides us. † Despite the differences, do not give room to the "divide and rule principle"
bacon steak 25 October 2019
well on my way but I am curious whether VVD and CDA in Brabant also form a block....... tonight we will know more
arthur 25 October 2019
took way too long
the shore seems to turn the ship at last
The farmers have been waiting a long time for this
dairy farmer 25 October 2019
It's high time we got together
Am a member of FCDF myself, but I think the entire supervisory board and the management can resign!!
It feels like they are just getting us!!
arable farmer 25 October 2019
It's ridiculous how the dairy lobby is putting everyone behind their backs again.
The problem has been created in intensive livestock farming and they are pulling the entire sector behind them.

How can you sit around the table with organizations such as (Z)LTO that have been stealing from farmers for years and no longer have any feeling for the sector.
Just look at how many departments there are... unwieldy body that eats up overhead costs.

Student 25 October 2019
The various sectors within the agricultural Netherlands have too many different interests, so sooner or later this will not work. And that makes no sense either, because why would you want to bear the pain of another sector..
until here and no further 25 October 2019
as long as the lto doesn't screw up again, they like to sit at the table too much, this to know what is coming their way and to be able to respond to this, they no longer represent interests
Bert 25 October 2019
Sowing arable farmers with mutual divisions we will never win the battle against the government 's green lie .

Thomas 25 October 2019
@Student
Supply and demand has never been different.
Student 25 October 2019
Well that didn't take long..
https://www.boerenbusiness.nl/melk/artikel/10884458/boerenorganisaties-ziedend-op-stikstofplan-zuivelsector
25 October 2019
Let them buy a lot of nitrogen for other sectors. Would be better for the permanent farmers if they had more room for their business operations. And farmers who, due to their age, stop working after 40-50 years, can sell their rights and nitrogen well.

This can only be a disadvantage for the co-eaters. Because with a smaller herd, there is less to eat.
Ton Westgeest 25 October 2019
The reason for the great sympathy for the farmers is not only that we provide food or that we work hard, no... because it has meanwhile become a mess in all working groups in the Netherlands.

Today the journalists, the legal profession and the judiciary have already been protesting. Education, students, healthcare, the police, fishermen and farmers almost all sectors in the Netherlands have had enough.....

Then of what??? The main thing is politics and the civil service. Everywhere is the ignorance and disinterest above!

To cite a few examples, the visionless policy among farmers that has been going on for decades and then, when rules go wrong, wanting to rectify the symptoms of the wrong policy.

The wrong cuts in health care, the rules like,
5 min. meeting about the rules and also wanting to split HBO and MBO. The same goes for education.

The judiciary and the lawyers are under time pressure and the fishermen and farmers issue permits and simply withdraw them later.

The nitrogen problem and all the other problems they themselves have caused by focusing on the money from Europe to give up so many natural areas just to be able to grab. Despicable hand clap partly with Europe,
partly with provincial, but also partly with criminal organizations.
For example, Smit-Kroes, Opstelten and Vonhoff with the waste processors. And recently, the Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management, which is shallowing the puddles with poison from Belgium, etc. etc....

And it goes on and on and it goes on and on, everyone gets tired of it, or is tired of it. I don't speak to anyone who still likes his job or his job.

That is why it is of the utmost importance that all groups in society seek contact with each other and flatten the Netherlands with each other!!!!
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erik 25 October 2019
it is welcomed by me (a farmer) when all noses are in the same direction. However, livestock farming needs to think very carefully about where the problem lies and who they need to solve it. And if you really want to solve it, you need one front. So give someone else something too!!
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farmer 25 October 2019
No nitrogen is bought up, at most a little around nature reserves. The livestock farming has to meet the strictest emission requirement, just like in Brabant, this was invented by smelts of d66 but would never have made it if the cda/vvd had not supported it.
So a good action would have been if everyone from construction / transport and agriculture had canceled membership or function of these parties
Now you can remove some sharp edges from plans in municipal council, but in the meantime invest tons of money in green label systems.
arable farmer 25 October 2019
Bert, there is no green lie.
see how dead the countryside has become in the intensive livestock farming regions.
The average plot is injected there annually from 30 to 80 cubic meters of manure.
If it's not for the ryegrass jungle, then it is for the maize or the afland fontane.
a cow/pig produces milk/meat and shit for one is not enough for the other.
that is why there is so much manure fraud.
First receive a taste of phosphate rights per animal for free and for nothing,
And then later a warm remediation over it, they should not have grown so much after the abolition of the quotas




Drent 25 October 2019
how do you want to account for 80 m3 per ha at RVO? everything is now registered
peter 25 October 2019
@akkerboer is a fake name he is not an arable farmer
until here and no further 26 October 2019
was not much to see in den bosch yesterday that the rows are closed, lto gave everything away again
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