In addition, Huizinga is concerned about grain exports. He also expressed these concerns. “The worst is yet to come. You can only export 25 percent of the harvest via rail or road. That means that farmers no longer receive any money, so can no longer pay wages, can no longer pay diesel. Then it will stop. .”
And you will see that in the long run. “The first thing you will cut back on is fertilizer. So that also means a lower harvest the following year. That effect has not yet worn off and it will take a few years to correct it again.”
Huizinga also faces an uncertain future. “We’re more or less able to keep up. I calculated that with one truck ride a week, I would need fifty trucks and that for fifty weeks to get all my harvest away.” Is that feasible? “No, there is a lack of trucks and they are standing at the border for a long time. So then a trip a week becomes a trip every two weeks and then you need a hundred trucks. And so half of my income goes to transport of the trucks.”
Huizinga also expects it to become busier at the border. “The whole of Ukraine is harvesting, so it will get busier at the border.”