Minister bombarded with parliamentary questions for summary proceedings

But that girl is doing very well what she is told, if she really had something with the wasp's nest, she would run away from her lies faster

The Ministry was pushed down the throat of Mrs Schouten by VVD and CDA; these parties wanted to keep 'clean hands' (agree with Hans!) Cowardly, to now ask these types of non-future-oriented questions in front of the stage. Coward, now that the minister is on a well-deserved vacation.

Also cowardly of the animal feed industry, putting the farmers in their shoes, sponsoring the summary proceedings and staying out of the picture themselves.
There is a major ammonia problem that livestock farming needs to solve. The protein content in concentrates must be structurally reduced, ultimately to, for example, a maximum of 100 grams of crude protein per kilogram of dry matter. Not just a few months.
It's a shame that the animal feed industry is doing everything it can to promote concentrates at the expense of roughage and grass. It is equivalent to fattening (stuffing to gagging) geese in France to get 'foie gras'. Unethical!

The real problem is the low milk price on the 'world market' in order to compete with the world market. This is unsustainable for the raison d'être and sustainability of (dairy) farmers, in the Netherlands and the EU. There must therefore be a reasonably high minimum price (at least EUR 0,50) for milk and EU import duties for milk and milk powder from outside the EU. Naturally coupled with volume control and environmental protection. The right to exist must be the starting point, then those hundreds of forms of subsidies, which cost hundreds of billions in the EU, can be eliminated.

Thinking in rules and subsidies subjects us even more to rules and subsidies (concoctions) and a bureaucracy of 10.000ths of officials in the EU and 1000ths of lobbyists. that are involved and cost tens of billions of dollars. As farmers you should not argue about a fringe phenomenon, such as ammonia. It must send a clear message to politicians, especially at election time: milk prices must rise sharply in the EU and protect the EU market, provide a raison d'être and solve environmental problems. You can pay for the transition with the savings of the subsidy bureaucracy. Who could be against that? Go on, short-sighted politicians of the VVD and CDA get to work. And hands at home from Mrs. Schouten.

If the government and eu27 do everything they can to dissolve your company, you will of course go against it for 100% with all the tools that are available in the horse carriage minster schouten back to the kitchen sink in rotterdam and christian union 1 seat in the elections in mrt 2021. hopefully there will be a minister who knows something about animal husbandry

Schouten is idiosyncratic, like that entire party of hers. The whole army of civil servants are green ayatollahs.

# jan cees birdwatcher. Come up with good figures and relevant arguments. Your previous calculations and accusations made no sense either. This does not serve the farmers; neither in the short term nor in the longer term.
Quite a few comments consist only of swearing; the farmers' right to exist is not served here. I even wonder whether they, including Vogelaar, have been in the parlor for the last 24 hours and whether they still understand the art of milking by hand.

Gijs,

"# jan cees birdaar. Come up with good figures and relevant arguments. Your previous calculations and accusations made no sense either."

Can you name where we can find relevant, reliable, concrete figures regarding Nitrogen emissions and precipitation from various economic activities?
(And don't come up with those "estimates and calculations with up to 100% margin" from the WUR.)

It's so easy to piss someone off without arguments like you do.