Van Dam: dairy farmer is to blame - In farewell interview

andre vw 4 September 2017

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Van Dam is right that farmers themselves caused the problem!!!!!!

However, the government has issued the permits for the expansion.

Robert 4 September 2017

If the finger then has to be pointed out.......... what was the role of the cooperatives and private processors in this? They had made huge investments in extra production capacity and a lot of extra milk was needed to fill it. Given the many regulatory officials within the dairy working at the processors, it would have been expected that someone there would have been alert enough to point out the impending violation of the derogation limits.

The cooperatives allowed this to happen and only started mopping when the tap was wide open.

However, Van Dam has to think about the future and thought it would be better to blame the farmers than the processors, who may have to be given a commissioner in the future.

Bit stupid 4 September 2017

our sector should not be fooled. That's how it works in politics. Van Dam has something to explain to his own left-wing supporters. Then only in this way he must have thought. He will not have a better one. "Little stupid" Maxima will think.

The plodding farmer 4 September 2017

It shouldn't get any crazier.
You comply with the applicable regulations.
You're trying to keep your business going.
The government with all its smart civil servants forget to look a little further ahead than their noses.
That is the cause of the expansion of dairy farming!
Let them look at their own mistakes first instead of always pointing at someone else.
And the farmer plods on!!

mdb 4 September 2017

And yet Van Dam is essentially right on this point!

In recent years, far too large stables have been built on little land.

Such companies make it to the trade magazines, blah blah stories....so now let's sit on the blisters too! and good too.
To spoil everything for someone else, these guys have been good for that

sober 4 September 2017

I don't think this is a black and white story, both the government and the sector have just muddled away a bit here.
The government still does not realize that it is time to set goals for the long term, where do you want the sector to be in 20 years and to stick to them regardless of the color of the coming cabinets.
Dairy farmers have to realize that continuous growth is different from entrepreneurship, perhaps it is more a form of agricultural autism.

Carla 4 September 2017

And we wish the NPO every success with this best man. Glad he's going, even happier if he stays away.

MK 4 September 2017

What a neck. He hasn't got his affairs in order yet. Just before he leaves the ship, give the sector a kick. Glad he's gone.

if 4 September 2017

In my opinion, politics together with the LTO should have been clearer right after the quota. No expansion at first. If you let entrepreneurs loose to the free market, there is no limit.

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smart ass 4 September 2017

and now direct the left-wing media, how can such a person become a commissioner of NPO?
left-wing gang there with news hour ahead

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erik 4 September 2017

this is a result of the derogation, many dairy farmers have benefited greatly from this, without realizing the possible adverse effects. So, your own fault

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Thieu 4 September 2017

Bit of a shame and not neat. A sector cannot regulate itself, just like a school class cannot teach itself.

The dairy processors have suggested that the trees would grow into the sky and LTO has been a toothless tiger for years that has no support from the farmers.

Van Dam is not a leader. I don't think Dijksma would have let it get that far.

Harm 4 September 2017

Now blame the dairy farmers. It shouldn't get any crazier.
We asked the government if we could build a new barn for so many cows. We bought ammonia rights, etc. for that. Tons spent on low-emission floors to meet everything. Permits are all in place and we haven't had 1 cow more in the barn than we have a permit for. And the farmers get the blame... What nonsense.

Farmer Franny 5 September 2017

The milk quota could be used to send, but that suddenly had to go.
Lost money for what it was bought for. suddenly worthless and now buying expensive phosphate rights again.
If only the milk quota had remained, this would not have happened.
it was to be expected that livestock would be expanded.
Still, a lot of milk is needed to fill all those mouths, because the drought in many countries means there is less food for the population.
Now it's about too much manure, there is a lot of demand for manure in the surrounding countries, that's where it goes.
That is not looked at. Too bad it had to go like this.

kalf 5 September 2017

Why was that quota introduced again?

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