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Russia already bought 2019 heifers in the EU in 45.000

30 October 2019 - Wouter Baan - 4 comments

In an effort to become self-sufficient in dairy, Russia is importing large numbers of heifers from European member states.

Bloomberg news agency has obtained customs figures showing that Russia has imported 45.000 heifers from the European Union so far this year. The heifers represent an export value of €100 million.

Doubling in 3 years
Imports have been steadily increasing in recent years. Compared to 2016, this is a doubling. It is expected that Russia will again become the largest importer of European cattle this year.

The increase is intended to boost milk production. Russia aims to become self-sufficient in dairy in the long term. To this end, the government has pumped an estimated €2,5 billion into the development of dairy farming in recent years.

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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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4 comments
Ton Westgeest 30 October 2019
This is in response to it Boerenbusiness article:
[url=http://www.boerenbusiness.nl/melk/ artikel/10884495/rusland-kocht-dit-jaar-al-45000-vaarzen-in-de-eu]Russia has already bought 45.000 heifers in the EU this year[/url]

Almost 40 years ago it was already anticipated that a nitrogen problem was coming if they continued like this. But the government has nevertheless worked on a gigantic increase in scale....

The Pfas problem can certainly be seen coming for just as long, but the large industries are still given free rein and are favored with all kinds of tax benefits in order to achieve growth....

The drinking water problem is also coming and everything continues, DSM, and Chemours, etc. may continue to discharge, there are now also 6000 substances in which you get cancer .....

We get poison from across the border to deepen our "natural lakes". We exchange clean sand, without Pfas, for poisoned dredging, with Pfas, with Belgium ....

We have created a consumption/throwaway society that is unparalleled. The micro and macro plastics are already in the air everywhere...

We create an unprecedented horizon pollution, now it even appears that the windmills release heavy toxic gas! Soon we will have the big problem of solar panels pollution, because where do we put them if they are written off?

We take in the biggest poison and mix it with heating oil, and we sell this poisonous oil all over the world. Which also causes enormous air pollution.....

We import waste which should be a cheap source to run power plants. For the sake of convenience, we forget about the CO2 and the pollution it takes to get it here and burn it....

We import biomass, for which we have trees cut down, which stores CO2 for centuries. Which we also pollute the air with the deprivation of it. As a result of asthma and COPD...

Everything revolves around money and people look away everywhere. The whole paid green industry doesn't seem out there to improve anything. They are used and paid for by investors from the aircraft and other industries.

And politics still makes everything happen. They don't think about the consequences and just do what!!! We point to corruption abroad, but I don't think it's comprehensible what's going on here!!!

Abroad they all laugh at us and just keep going, just like in Russia.!!
Maybe we will also go to Russian dairy products, just like we do with Russian gas!!
Durk of 4 November 2019
Stop whining once and continue as it should and work as it should. I've been a baker for 40 years was not always a bed of roses without a subsidy.
hans 4 November 2019
So Ton, now you hear it from someone else! And then also from a fellow small entrepreneur!

Probably a baker from within the canal belt, who could ask for 1 euro each for his self-heated croissants, and got them.
That environment that lives in a very different world than ordinary Dutch people. But he does take his money from that provincial. Just look where the big chunk of tax revenue ends up.

Ton, be right or be right, I think the Netherlands is lost.
Ton Westgeest 4 November 2019
I think the Netherlands is lost.

I think the world is lost Hans, when I watch TV I watch programs like Zembla and backlight......
Yesterday "After us the deluge" was NPO 2, if you see the pollution in all those countries, the dirt (plastic soup) that floats and on which they just build houses, the air pollution and those crowds and that, in combination with the water level rising, it's very hard not to get depressed...

Then you see the wealth here and what they are concerned about here, acid rain, ozone layer and phosphate that you don't hear about anymore. Now that ammonia, which is also not air polluting at all, you think that politics no longer wants to go in the right direction....

Do something about the nitrogen NOx, do something about the import of toxic soil, do something about the import of wood pellets from North and South America, cut with the import of waste, cut with that poisonous dirty fuel oil from ships, stop with those solar panels on agriculture first calculate the net net yield of windmills at sea in energy and CO2....
But I feel like a voice crying in the wilderness!!
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