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Schouten sees no room for problems

13 December 2018 - Wouter Baan - 16 comments

In the general consultation on Irregularities Identification and Registration (I&R) and Manure Policy, Minister Carola Schouten (Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality) said that there is no room to meet the bottlenecks in the phosphate rights system.

Schouten says he has been to the European Commission in Brussels to see if there is room for the pinched to give a helping hand. However, it turns out there isn't. The minister agrees that her 'no' is a painful message, but she says she sees no other options.

No answer
A few thousand dairy farmers still do not have an answer from the Netherlands Enterprise Agency on the objection that they have submitted on the number of phosphate rights allocated. The minister says she will enter into talks with the Ministry of Justice and Security for leniency in enforcing a possible violation of the law. Fertilizer Act.

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Wouter Baan is Head of Meat & Dairy at BoerenbusinessAt DCA Market Intelligence, he focuses on dairy, pork, and meat markets. He also monitors (business) developments within agribusiness and interviews CEOs and policymakers.
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16 comments
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Nico 14 December 2018
This is in response to it Boerenbusiness article:
[url=http://www.boerenbusiness.nl/melk/artikel/10880785/schouten-ziet-geen-ruimte-voor-constrictions]Schouten sees no room for bottlenecks[/url]
Say it. This was to be expected
has 14 December 2018
she changed the rules of the game during the game. so she has to solve it too. now she makes her problem our problem and you don't treat each other like that.
shoemakers1 14 December 2018
she has no problem, her salary continues
January 14 December 2018
@tem. when did the match start?
January 10 14 December 2018
Come get it from the pig farmers. Phosphate enough. Pig rights too much lease price 1.50 max 2 euros.
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mt 14 December 2018
Nothing changes anymore
Arrange rights, otherwise you'll be completely in the shit next year
Don't expect anything from sheriffs, not even from consultation or whatever, then we will hear exactly the same as in June and yesterday, because she can't and is not allowed to spend anymore big POINT
Padre 14 December 2018
Good thing to treat everyone the same, don't help fast guys extra at the expense of the rest who have mastered themselves.
Everyone knows where they stand up and head up with the goat just working and not doing crazy things and have done then everything will be fine, one has to make more sacrifices than the other. those who have submitted 8.3% have already done more than enough
farmer bart 14 December 2018
rightly so, everyone knew that we had to stay within the phosphate space. the gamblers on free phosphate have lost.
the people who have lost 8.3% and have not grown after 2014 are the real bottlenecks.













farmer 14 December 2018
Exactly, good thing it is and remains consistent.
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Bertie 14 December 2018
Solution is good, whoever ruins it should just sit on the blisters, it was a gamble and it turns out wrong, bad luck.
Never touch the land-bound companies, that's unfair.
Ronnie 14 December 2018
I know people who had a hundred cows come before 2 July but only had a barn for 200 cows that was already full at the time, but they did receive the phosphate rights for those hundred cows. Why take a date in the future? Just take April 1, 2015.
Jan 14 December 2018
Bertje must be ground-bound himself! How naive!!
Pete 14 December 2018
Bertje must be of left-wing politics. Land-bound to the future fine, but retroactively is ridiculous.
Sjoerd 15 December 2018
And Bertje might also be a future stopper. Not invested for the next generation.... Counting his money already...

Can't believe the phosphate ceiling isn't being kicked around anymore. What environmental interest does this ceiling serve? Manure on land was already regulated through the Fertilizer Act. What does phosphate production say about the environmental pressure (water quality) if it had already been regulated how much manure may be released into the environment?

The retention of the derogation as a reason for phosphate rights is also debatable. After all, extension of the derogation is already under pressure.

If phosphate ceiling is the holy reasoning, this is unjustified. After all, it serves no purpose whatsoever.

Ignoring bottlenecks, because we would not stay within the phosphate ceiling, therefore does not work. There is no benefit in ignoring pinch points. No environmental interest. No public interest. Nothing at all other than killing a number of individual citizens/entrepreneurs.
Berta 24 15 December 2018
What a nice minister of agriculture we have received. She is destroying her own job because this way we will soon no longer have an agricultural sector at all. We have a beautiful dairy farm, with more than enough land. On July 2, 2015, we were still working on the renovation of the barn, for which we had all the necessary permits without any problems, so we didn't have enough cows yet, but we did keep the young stock. Sufficient for an expansion from 65 to 85 cows. Won first lawsuit, so no fine and no further clearance needed. Lost on appeal, so a fine with retroactive effect. Unfortunately, we were no longer able to get rid of cows retroactively, so whether we want to tap 16.000 euros. That's only a pittance compared to what other companies may have to pay, but the way in which it is done is really so poignant. We have invested half a million in the new barn, everything has been adapted and up to date, we have purchased a second milking robot and so there we are now. With no more rights than before the renovation, 2nd robot actually purchased for nothing. Sufficient land to be able to supply 1.000 cubic meters of manure. So we can have the shit, but not the cows on the farm...
Does Schouten understand what this kind of nonsense does to us emotionally?
How could we know what date in the past they would pick as a reference? squeeze? First yes, RVO has confirmed that we had passed their own light test. Then it suddenly turned out that the test followed different criteria, so no, no problem, because a renovation suddenly does not count as construction work...
Invest another half a million to buy phosphate rights? Which may no longer exist in 5 years? Because then other rules are made up again? Brown doesn't like that.
To top it all off, the NVWA visited 6 times this year, even once an inspection to see if the inspection had been carried out properly... And just remain friendly and cooperate, because what choice do you have?
Dairy farming has its back against the wall, the farmers' work is made impossible. Companies are going to fail emotionally and financially. And above all to say that it is right, that we should have known that rules are rules. That is not the case at all, rules are made up all the time and changed with retroactive effect. To this day we do not yet know what the consequences are of exceeding the phosphate quota. I think that's a shame!! Will we be handing out fines with retroactive effect?
And Schouten just keeps on clearing her alley with a smile... yuck!!
Gerrit 15 December 2018
Why are the beef cattle farms not involved in this? Don't they shit phosphate?
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