This farmer had to live on donations from visitors

Our farm, with Yvon Jaspers. I like to watch these broadcasts. Finally a program on television that is not directed against the farmers. 

This time to Denmark. A farm was visited, where the farmer has been farming and farming biologically dynamically for more than 30 years. People from many parts of Europe came to see him on the farm. To see how he farms, but also people came to him to find peace.

This farmer is a dream example of our left-wing political parties. Good for nature, lots of biodiversity, exactly as The Hague wishes. This is what the outsider thinks and sees, who has no knowledge of agriculture. Anyone who is involved in agriculture has a very different view of this farm. His buildings were about to collapse, his machinery had nearly collapsed. You could clearly see that this farmer was not making any money. My suspicion was confirmed when this farmer was asked how he got his money.

10 times higher price in supermarket
This farmer had to live on donations from visitors. If this farmer has to sell his food for the price it cost, this price must be at least 10 times higher than the current retail price. Can you imagine that you have to pay 10 times as much in the supermarket than you pay now. 9 out of 10 people can't even afford that. Food will only become affordable for people who earn more than twice the average.

Furthermore, we will also experience famine, because the country produces much less food. If we see what our left parties want, this is how it should be burped. As a result, our food is 10 times more expensive. Or that our farmers also have to live on donations or that they go bankrupt. The latter may well be the intention, because then The Hague can get cheap land and the farmers are cleaned up.

Extra attack on nature
The Hague only forgets the consequences. We have to get all the food from abroad, where the food is grown with a much greater environmental impact. This will have an additional impact on nature worldwide. This is exactly the opposite of what left-wing politics thinks.

Each farmer employs at least 10 people. Think of transport, construction, mechanization, food processing, civil servants and so on. The economic damage will therefore be very great. Now the farmer also maintains the landscape for free. Without farmers, citizens have to pay maintenance. Let's say a 1.000.000 ha x €1000 is an additional cost of €1.000.000.000 per year.

It does not help for loss of biodiversity and birds. After all, the number of nature reserves has expanded enormously in the last 20 years and at the same time biodiversity has decreased. So you can't blame farmers for this. The grassland birds are mainly declining drastically due to the enormous increase in predators, such as storks, martens, foxes and wild cats. The nests near us, where the game cameras were standing, have all been emptied by these predators.

Natural nitrogen in cycle
Agriculture only produces natural nitrogens, which are reabsorbed into nature in its cycle after 10 years. Very different from the nitrogen that is released during the combustion of all kinds of raw materials. This nitrogen accumulates in the air and it takes more than 1.000 years to break down again.

Leftist politics and media, you really don't know what you are doing. One thing is certain: sooner or later, the ship will turn. Farmers who are gone never come back. Every farmer who is cleared up in the Netherlands means that at least twice as much nature is reclaimed into agricultural land abroad. After all, whatever happens, humans need food every day.

Jaap Major
Low Zuthem

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