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Hundreds of pig farmers in Brabant

4 May 2017 - Redactie Boerenbusiness - 8 comments

'If the new, stricter livestock policy in Brabant continues, hundreds of pig farms will go bankrupt.' So says Uri Rosenthal, chairman of the Coalition Vitalization Pig Farming. 

Boerenbusiness TV interviews Uri Rosenthal about the progress of the Vitalization Plan for Pig Farming and his resistance to the new livestock policy of the province of Noord-Brabant. 

Rosenthal is chairman of the Coalition Vitalization Pig Farming. He is concerned about the new livestock policy of the province of Noord-Brabant that must be introduced before this summer. Livestock farmers who want to expand will be subject to a demolition obligation and therefore additional costs. Rosenthal fears that these measures will hinder the implementation of the Vitalization Plan.

Stalderen is the new lock
Rosenthal entered into a conversation with the Brabantse at the end of April Deputy Anne-Marie Spierings to express his concern. If it is up to the provincial government of Brabant, the nitrogen regulation will be brought forward and a parking system will be introduced.

Staldering means that for every square meter of shed with which a livestock farm is expanded, at least one square meter of shed is demolished or repurposed elsewhere in the same area. This new brake on the livestock is related to the broader Brabant manure policy that is in the works.

The condition for expanding the manure processing options is that the livestock may not grow or shrink. The parking rules are now an elaboration of this. 

On 7 July, the States of Brabant will consider the proposed policy. 

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8 comments
Gerard 4 May 2017
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It's great that stayers clean up the buildings of the stoppers. If you complain for years about your income, but you can always put new (large) stables ..... then this seems to me a perfect solution for the impoverishment of the countryside !!!
Gerard 4 May 2017
And who is going to pay for that? They get what they want no young generation of farmers in Brabant, then all the old stuff just remains.
No solution yet.
info 4 May 2017
I don't think that expanding the number of pigs in Brabant is a problem, I think that companies are getting bigger, you see that phenomenon everywhere, just look at Russia where companies with 50.000 animals are built and if there is good money, old stables are made cleared and large industrial buildings are better maintained now there is no money for demolition and proper maintenance. Then there is the manure that annoys many citizens, which is already partly processed, so no problem either. The worst thing is that that citizen wants meat of extremely high quality on his plate for very little money and also interferes with the pig farmer's work and interferes with everything he or she has no knowledge of
Geert Verstegen 5 May 2017
The problem is getting worse. For decades, the arguments have been cast aside in favor of a group of industrial farmers. And now we're in the shit. Yes, I eat meat of good quality: organic and those companies do not have a manure surplus.
And yes, very large companies are appearing in Russia.......... with a lot of land around them. We don't have that here. The basis of economy is raw materials, capital and labour. We do not have raw materials, labor is expensive here and capital difficult to obtain. So it will stop for once.
harm 6 May 2017
oh geert so you prefer to eat meat from russia and let our farmers who are among the best in the world suffocate... we have nice burgers in the Netherlands because of that the whole sector is destroyed
who bemelmans 4 November 2017
Every citizen has an opinion about the farmers here in the Netherlands, but they buy meat where it is cheapest and now you have the vegetarian butcher how crazy can they come up with it. and only complain about the farmers, they have to walk with the pig farmer or cow farmer for a week I don't talk about cooperating because they can't do that, that's too heavy for them then that nagging of them was suddenly about. And they know where it is good meat comes from.
Hans 17 March 2018
Buy half of the pigs and cows and chickens, and you have all sectors healthy, just do it!!
shoemakers1 17 March 2018
throw away half of the current nonsensical regulations and you have everything healthy, costs nothing and everyone happy
Skirt 17 March 2018
I think this fits in with the Dutch policy that has been going on for years to decimate the agricultural sector.
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