The cowshed follows in 1980. “We are now 45 years later and we demolish him again,” he says with some difficulty. It is included in a scheme that he has signed. A stoppers scheme for peak loaders.
Now, together with his cousin with whom he runs the company, he is going to do something else. He sown elephant grass this Easter weekend, on one and a half hectares. Now a small stick, in two years it will be three meters high. He has planted 25,000 cuttings, always 75 centimeters in between. “Just like corn.”
“Why elephant grass? It is a very natural product, it stores a lot of CO2 in the soil. By stopping the company, we are now actually going through. On the one hand we remove the dairy cattle and the animal manure, and on the other hand we store it in the soil. We win much more with it than just the one hundred percent reduction of our company.”