The Arendonkse Boer Bart Dickens (44) stops after three generations with his dairy farm and designates the controversial nitrogen rules as a scapegoat. “Invest more than 400,000 euros to get almost certainly no new permit more in 2030? Unbairious.” He is the first dairy farmer and the leader of action group Farmers Defense Force – who can be bought out by the Flemish government. “Whether I don’t betray the farmers? No. They understand me.”

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