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'Management measures the nitrogen alternative'
Network GRONdig, an interest group for land-based dairy farmers, urges the government to include management measures as a fully-fledged nitrogen reduction tool. The organization is going to The Hague today (September 13) to present its perspective for Dutch dairy farming.
The group of dairy farmers are in the company of cow Bertha 40 and present their recommendations to the MPs who sit on the Agriculture Committee. Cow Bertha 40 symbolizes a new standard: 40 kg NH3/ha. The Low-Emission Operations project has arrived at this emission standard in order to be called low-emissions. This project was carried out by Boerenverstand, Wageningen UR, Leiden University and Netwerk GRONdig and financed by the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality itself.
According to GRONdig, secured management measures are the ideal alternative for technical barn adjustments to, for example, floors, of which the Council of State last week concluded on appeal against three types that they are not eligible for licensing until further notice.
Linda van Eekeres
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