The Environmental Quality Regulation was launched on Friday 1 September. The production rights that become available are only transferable between pig farmers. Should these rights be tradable between the different sectors? CDA MEP Annie Schreijer-Pierik thinks so.
What is your position on the exchange of production rights between the different sectors?
"The interchangeability of pig rights should be extended by not only exchanging the rights within the pig farming sector. The pig farmers should also be able to exchange the rights with the dairy farming and poultry sector. In this way, a comfortable solution is offered for the entire sector and not just for those companies that are lucky enough to be selected for the Environmental Quality Regulation."
Why are you in favor of exchange?
"The number of pig farmers will drop by roughly 50% from 4.400 now to 2.000 within 3 to 8 years," he said chairman Uri Rosenthal of the Vital Pig Farming steering group† In order to leave the large group of quitters without a large residual debt, poultry farmers and dairy farmers must also be given the opportunity to take over the animal rights of pig farmers. This not only helped the pig farmers, but also the other sectors. I myself have always argued for the family business with self-determination and not for the companies that are on the drip of a feed supplier or slaughterhouse due to scaling up."
Doesn't exchange drive up prices?
"I don't want to speculate about this. Let the market do its job. Opponents always say that the rights are much too expensive and that their cost is increased. Many healthy companies in my area, (including those with more than 10.000 pigs ) have the number of rights under their company. How come the opponents do not have that? In addition, a stable is worth nothing, in terms of collateral. Rights that are exchangeable at all animal levels can have a fixed value. could be used to continue to innovate as a permanent fixture."
The pig sector is against the exchange, because they fear they will lose out. How do you see that?
"Is it the pig sector or is it the compound feed industry that opposes it, that is afraid to see their volume in tons disappear? The pig sector is part of the entire livestock sector in the Netherlands, which involves financial, social and environmental considerations. those against have had plenty of opportunities to gain rights under the company and have chosen to remain disenfranchised on their own account.”
Under what conditions should an exchange take place?
"Many variations are possible. All sectors could provide input for this. All the ins and outs of the scheme proposed by the Coalition Vitalization Pig Farming are not yet known. Let's wait and see and don't shoot under their pigeons."
Co-author: Esther de Snoo
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Yeah, I don't quite understand that reasoning either. I think Piet means: it is better for me if rights can be exchanged...A cow farmer who stops has besides rights also hectares of land for sale. That is only win-win (-win).
I would rather cut the pig rights 10% generically than sell 10% to the dairy farm.. just less manure pays for itself.
First and foremost: I am against exchanging for the aforementioned refenen. I read all kinds of comments here from people who are very good with stoppers (because they are stoppers themselves?). Then I would like to propose that if we do start exchanging, we will compensate the pig farmers who have sold their rights in the past 3 years with the added value of the rights. Because why should a stopper in 2018, for example, receive 5 times as much as a stopper in 2017?
let the dairy farmers solve their own problems, this should not be at the expense of the growing pig farmers.
Suppose dairy farming is allowed to take over pig rights but methane production is not allowed to increase, how many pig rights must they take over to keep an extra cow?