Etiket: farming
Intensive farming, the PDL and the Meat Free week
LLast week a coalition of associations, including Greenpeace, Legambiente and WWF, presented the text of the law Beyond intensive farming. The objective is to make an ecological transition possible in…
These plants can save North Holland livestock farming
Cattail and plantain can play a major role in the survival of livestock farmers in North Holland. Cattail can withstand water better than grass and can therefore offer a solution…
Arable farming family Clevering is met with resistance to new road around Warffum
The country’s highest administrative court does not agree with the Groningen arable farming family Clevering that the construction of a new agro-logistics ring road around Warffum would be unnecessary and…
Subsidy of 1.7 million euros for making farming more sustainable
1.7 million euros is available for farmers in the province of Drenthe to make their business more sustainable. This subsidy from the province of Drenthe is intended for the purchase…
29% of groundwater has nitrates due to industrial livestock farming, according to Greenpeace
Los acuíferos españoles agonizan. El 28,6 % de las aguas subterráneas analizadas en España está contaminada con nitratos y su causante, según Greenpeace, es “bien conocido: la agricultura y la…
But no fur-free Europe? EU awaits studies to ban fur farming
As part of the revision of existing animal protection laws in Brussels, fur farming is also coming under scrutiny. After around 1.5 million EU citizens from at least seven EU…
Broad collaboration to accelerate innovations in livestock farming | News item
News item | 04-12-2023 | 3:30 PM The government wants to work together with the farmers of the Netherlands on a strong and sustainable agricultural sector. Innovation can play an…
Farmers Veenhuizen have concrete ideas for reduced nitrogen emissions and more sustainable farming
The farmers want to solve part of the emissions problem with technology. In Jan Willem de Jong’s dairy stable you will quickly learn why dairy farming produces so much nitrogen.…
Green light for salmon farming in the port of Ostend, GAIA…
Norwegian salmon farmer Columbi will soon build the largest land-based salmon farm in Western Europe in Ostend. They farmed and slaughtered 12,000 tons of Atlantic salmon per year. The further…
“The impact is so great”, continued sheep farming on the journey through bluetongue
The question remains whether the Dutch sheep sector will survive the outbreak of the deadly bluetongue virus, Agriculture Minister Piet Adema warns. Many sheep farmers in North Holland have also…