Etiket: farmers
Construction wants to start buying out farmers quickly: ‘Come on with that wildly attractive scheme’
Bouwend Nederland believes that the government is reacting unnecessarily frenetically to the BBB’s monster victory in the Provincial Council elections. “There is nothing standing in the way of the government…
Farmer’s protest symbol demolished: “That hurts a bit”
Today the meter-high straw doll along the A1 near Eemnes was demolished. The doll was the symbol of the farmers’ protests in the region. The province has instructed the owner,…
Farmers take a different tack: ‘Care farm next to dairy cattle because of nitrogen’
“It can’t be true.” That is what dairy farmer Gerard Meerkerk from Emmer-Compascuum thought when he was confronted with the nitrogen map of minister Christianne van der Wal last year.…
Georgina Verbaan is done with it: ‘Farmers are favored’
Georgina Verbaan believes that climate protesters are dealt with more harshly than protesting farmers. “It is a bit like measuring with double standards. That makes this a worrying time.” ©…
Walloon farmers worried about new measures against soil erosion: farmers travel by tractor to the headquarters of the Walloon government | Interior
Representatives of the French-speaking agricultural organizations FWA and Fugea traveled by tractor to the headquarters of the Walloon government in Namur on Tuesday. They are concerned about upcoming measures to…
Register every piece of land and every animal: farmers go crazy with new obligations
Farmers and gardeners are biting their teeth on a new purple crocodile. Due to changes in the law, the mandatory annual statement of company data is so extremely complicated that…
Campaign for farmers who need help: ‘We have to get them to talk’
“We have to see that we can get them to work,” says Sandra Katerberg of Zorg om Boer en Tuinder (ZOB). Together with the Agriculture and Horticultural Organization of the…
Farmer’s daughter wants to set up Flemish branch of BoerBurgerBeweging: “It would be fantastic if politicians would listen to us now”
The blitz success of the BoerBurgerBeweging in the Netherlands also makes Flemish farmers’ sympathizers dream: farmer’s daughter Tine Hermans is busy preparing to set up a Flemish arm. “When I…
Beemster farmers thank BBB voters and turn flags around again
Farmers in the Beemster hang the Dutch tricolor with the red side up again. The flags were hung upside down along the road and in the yard during the farmers’…
‘No room’ or ‘talk farmers to the mouth’: wolf is divisive in election debate
Henk Jumelet (CDA), as deputy responsible for wolf policy in Drenthe, also fiercely shrugged off the debate. He says he was presented with the idea for a long time that…