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To what extent can circular agriculture be extended?

18 November 2019 - Redactie Boerenbusiness - 4 comments

Cor Pierik, head of agriculture at CBS, is one of the speakers at the National Economic Agricultural Congress van Boerenbusiness† Pierik has his team calculate the feasibility of circular agriculture and takes a dive into the past himself.

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John Holterman 19 November 2019
This is in response to it Boerenbusiness article:
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"To what extent can circular agriculture develop" is a comment that does not fit in with this time of (have to) change. According to the common thread in the considerations, it is not the economic aspect that should weigh most heavily, but the climate/CO2 steps that could be taken. After all, everything that comes along with options costs (a lot of) money compared to the current model...
Cees Bean 19 November 2019
That can only work at European level, and then in the long term. We end up in a system of guaranteed prices, compensation, and emigration of Dutch farmers to neighboring countries, if one ignores the first sentence.

Do we also ask this of other industries in the Netherlands?

shoemakers 1 19 November 2019
circular agriculture, which will also mean that every arable farmer is allowed to keep livestock proportionally, or is it again something that is completely steered towards delusions
Drikus 19 November 2019
Whisper on a plate . Many companies have consciously or unconsciously practiced circular agriculture for years. Usually from the point of view of lower feed crusts and fertilization costs. There would be fewer rules and what actually happens when the government takes the position of the entrepreneur . We are slowly moving towards a government that is withdrawing from care and some security of income and well-being. And at the same time they sit in the entrepreneur 's chair . The government decides when which land can be re-sown. When and which green manure should be sown. That there must first be a spray plan before and now an evaluation list after using the crop protection product. And so on . It 's just gone too far .
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