BB TV: Ruud Tijssens

Brabant brings farmers in financial distress

June 23, 2017 - Redactie Boerenbusiness - 3 comments

"Disastrous for farmers", Ruud Tijssens calls the intended policy of the province of Brabant. If the plans go ahead, livestock farmers in Brabant will have to invest 300 to 800 million euros extra to comply with the new rules. "That money isn't there." 

The new policy concerns stables and bringing the ammonia emission requirements for stables forward by 6 years. Stalling means that a livestock farmer who wants to expand his business must first demolish another stable (plus 10% extra). So a farmer who expands 10 square meters has to demolish 11 square meters of old barn. This does not apply to dairy and sheep farmers.

The Provincial Council will vote on the proposed policy on Friday 7 July.

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bart June 23, 2017
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"That doesn't apply", with us we still pay with money, or is there a new currency?
info June 23, 2017
What kind of drivers are they who come up with these kinds of rules at all, let alone dare to bring them up on the table while they themselves drive to the provincial house in a big expensive car 3 times a year, book distant holidays, have a house with 5 rooms too many in which the heating costs are skyrocketing, their (wages) themselves determine and that is not little. Where the farmer has to put meat on the table for an ever lower cost price and where the same administrators want to put more and more land in trees because that citizen is not realizes that the cows don't give milk from trees and the pigs just eat grains and if there are trees on that land no grain can be harvested for the animals and we are forced to buy the grains from a foreign supplier.
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smart ass June 23, 2017
isn't it a bit of your own fault?
In the past, the whole of Brabant voted CDA then you didn't have that hassle, but nowadays everyone suddenly wants organic, even more care, climate, just think soberly, you see what happens when you give your vote away to dreamers.
geert June 24, 2017
In the past there was money, that's why there are so many stables, but now you have to have money to demolish a stable and build a new one, so pay money twice
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