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Airtime farmer in Noordwijk, disappointment in Den Bosch

26 October 2019 - Redactie Boerenbusiness - 18 comments

Farmer protests continue. Agractie is organizing a campaign in Noordwijk this Saturday, October 26, in which farmers claim airtime in the TV program of Harry Mens. An intensive week of protest in front of the provincial government in Den Bosch, with a massive demonstration yesterday (Friday 25 October) as a conclusion, was ultimately a disappointment for the farmers.

A whole procession of hikers gathered on the boulevard in Noordwijk on Saturday morning for a protest during the shooting of the TV program Business Class. This program is broadcast on RTL on Sunday morning. The farmers claim airtime and have also received it from presenter Harry Mens. The farmers receive coffee and a snack from the staff of the hotel where the recordings take place.

Agractie states that it wants to convey 'an honest and understandable message' about nitrogen, Natura 2000 areas and government policy. Harry Mens said on social media that he found the protest action 'delicious'. "I fully support them, I am the son of a bulb farmer myself. It's all nonsense, in Germany everything is allowed and we have to be the best boy in the class again."

Finally, Agractie founder Bart Kemp and agricultural entrepreneur Anja Henken sat down at the table at Harry Mens, where politician Henk Otten and TV presenter Robert Jensen were guests. This broadcast, where the tractors and farmers were permanently visible in the background, is to be seen here† Kemp and Henken will make their appearance from 1.20 am.

Deadline holds in Den Bosch
In Den Bosch, after an intensive protest of a week, in which the alarm bells were sounded, the farmers returned home late Friday evening, empty-handed. After a vote, the provincial councils of North Brabant chose not to withdraw the policy rules for nitrogen. And even more important for livestock farmers, not to postpone the now infamous permit deadline of April 1, 2020. 

Livestock farmers from Brabant who have to adapt their barn due to the so-called Nature Protection Regulation must have applied for a permit before April 1, 2020, after which the barn must be fully adapted by January 1, 2022. Impossible with the completely unclear national nitrogen policy, which has now been added.

Key at the CDA
The key in the province lay with coalition party CDA on Friday. He was critical at first, but eventually decided to vote with the other parties in the coalition, so that the deadline of April 1, 2020 has also been legally established. However, the province has voted in favor of a small relaxation, whereby livestock farms choose an innovative barn system that has not yet received final approval. They must report this before 1 April and then have more time for implementation.

It is expected that only a small group of farmers will be able to make use of this. The farmers continued their protest in front of the provincial government until well into the evening, during which the Brabant flag was burned and fireworks were fired.

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18 comments
Ton Westgeest 26 October 2019
This is in response to it Boerenbusiness article:
[url=http://www.boerenbusiness.nl/melk/ artikel/10884470/zendtijd-boer-in-noordwijk-ontgoocheling-in-den-bosch]Zendtijd farmer in Noordwijk, disappointment in Den Bosch[/url]
CDA Brabant has repented and is now also for national instead of provincial rules

yes yes how long did that take???

If your VVD or the coalition parties continue to vote, nothing will change. Only by voting massively differently can you change something.

We are voting cattle we only count in elections. Only by using it you might get somewhere. Farmers should do something about that to begin with.

Let them know that they are wrong on all fronts!!!!
baby 26 October 2019
They just don't have a plate for the head anymore and very arrogant. In other words it doesn't choke them at all.
peter 26 October 2019
@ all farmers will go on strike en masse in the hague next Wednesday! Construction, transport is also possible, if people don't listen, we will shut down the country and demand new elections!!
shoemakers 1 26 October 2019
It is good to take action, it is also badly needed, the whole country is destroyed by this nonsense, but if it matters, you are alone, see Brabant yesterday
Hans van Zwan 26 October 2019
I am not a farmer, have nothing to do with farmers, but.... stand behind the farmers.
I was in The Hague on October 16, a great protest. But apparently more needs to be done. Join me in following actions.
Jan 26 October 2019
Good, so put the country away with Rutte
jorge clipper 26 October 2019
it is quite clear that the people in the provincial states of Brabant get money from some company eg who make the rosters or are they really people of the people of hitler sorry but WW2 is not over and just celebrate 75 years of freedom. if you maintain this policy then you still ask the farmers please drive the tractor in to the people who celebrate 75 years of freedom
geert 27 October 2019
Rutte and the rest have to fuck off
Merlin 27 October 2019
The sooner we get rid of Rutte, the better
Can we also write off Groen left and D66 right away
shoemakers 1 27 October 2019
jorge clipper wrote:
it is quite clear that the people in the provincial states of Brabant get money from some company eg who make the rosters or are they really people of the people of hitler sorry but WW2 is not over and just celebrate 75 years of freedom. if you maintain this policy then you still ask the farmers please drive the tractor in to the people who celebrate 75 years of freedom
nothing was run into on Friday, it was all kept tidy, but the Brabant farmers do not want to demonstrate, the moment they had to be there they were gone, the penultimate to leave was not even a citizen of Brabant, help is enough, but the people from Brabant are cowards
Farmer Berend 27 October 2019
And now we have to wait for a farmer who can still rationalize and does not feel personally attacked or offended. He understands that this is not an attack on the farmers, but one of the first necessary measures to do something against environmental pollution. That everyone will have to deal with measures that we feel in the wallet. That if each party reacts like the farmer, every environmental measure will perish and nature, including people and farmers, will die. That a healthy environment is vital for farmers themselves. After all, they depend on it, though they seem to have forgotten it at times.
Demonstrating against The Hague is demonstrating against yourself. If you want a future, listen to The Hague instead of yourself on the radio.

Angry reactions will probably arise, because the farmer is angry. But every comment is a confirmation of the above.
arable farmer 27 October 2019
You cannot ignore us.
We are going to shut down the food supply, etc. etc.
The stupidity radiates from FDF foreman was stuttering in provincial house.

Then the agraction neatly articulated on a nice stage.
Not the ratings cannon what you hope business class but ala.

Colleagues would like to explain to all those brats from FDF how it works.
water willow 27 October 2019
Farmer Berend the farmers have been feeling it in their wallets for 30 years so the rack is out once
Subscriber
quite coarse 27 October 2019
It just stays calm Berend, after that chatter of yours.
Too bad he.
Farmer Dieuwke 27 October 2019
It's a shame, but we really need to clean up our own pollution. Always slowing down and sliding on the long track. The government policy is: "own fault, big bump". Farming is now becoming wise and mature. Nobody needs the NL farmer.
Ton Westgeest 28 October 2019
And now we have to wait for a farmer who can still rationalize and does not feel personally attacked or offended. He understands that this is not an attack on the farmers, but one of the first necessary measures to do something against environmental pollution.

And you call this rational Boer Berend???? I hope you live long and experience where this is going with this policy......

Rivm has already admitted that half of the farmers are gone, not helping. That it doesn't even help if all the farmers are gone, because then there is still a nitrogen problem!!!

By acting completely without vision in this small country, the government has allowed too large companies, up to 60000 pigs, 500000 chickens and 1500 cows, while that was not possible at all.

The government in Europe has made major mistakes, for financial reasons, when designating nature reserves. They are landscaped parks.

That's the whole nitrogen problem... the government.

The billions of subsidies for biomass will also become a problem in the future, it will cost the health of many people, for example COPD. Under the guise of, the CO2 does not count for the climate.

The toxic soil with PFAS from Belgium, which we use to deepen our lakes, and the clean soil that we sell, are considered a normal business model in The Hague.

The poison that we make disappear and mix with the fuel oil. We also see it as an ordinary revenue model, we simply sell it to all ships in the port of Rotterdam.

We are building the entire North Sea full of windmills and gas platforms, including in the Wadden Sea. It will be one industrial area. We fill the landscape with solar panels, while there are still plenty of roofs.
We will soon be cycling between "nature areas", wind turbines and solar collectors.... nice idea?

That's the whole pollution problem.....the government

I wish you guys would start worrying about the real things that matter!!
Ernst Porter 28 October 2019
In my youth I saw farming harmoniously with nature. This piece was made by Mansholt (PvdA). After the creation of the CDA, nature management from the Min. of CRM and at the Min. of Agriculture. After that, Agriculture & Nature was led almost continuously by the CDA. The idea of
"stewardship of the creation" remained with the words of Genesis 9-2: "And the fear and terror of thee be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, and every thing that moves upon the face of the earth, and every fish of the sea. Into thine hand are they given."
In short, do what you want with it! Take advantage! That living nature is a
value beyond usefulness is alien to the Christianity of Nicaea (AD 325).
There are of course exceptions, such as with the Flemish priest Guido Gezelle. He wrote: "The flower speaks a language to me, to me the herb is experienced. I salute all that God has created."
shoemakers 1 28 October 2019
Dear Ersnt, when do you get serious?
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