Farmers Across the Netherlands Are Protesting Fiercely Against the Cabinet's New Nitrogen Plans.

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Farmers' action groups announced a new wave of protests against the cabinet's nitrogen policy on Monday. This while the reality in...

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Farmers' protests are flaring up throughout the Netherlands. The farmers are fighting against the cabinet's controversial nitrogen plans.

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Hundreds of farmers are again protesting right behind our border. Nitrogen is also the subject of agriculture in Wesel County.

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Extensive, land-based farming, cows grazing day and night, and ammonia emissions per hectare that already meet the 2035 targets: these are precisely the types of farms The Hague claims to want. Yet, the nitrogen plans presented by Minister Jaimi van Essen at the end of June are forcing precisely these dairy farmers to downsize significantly or make expensive barn investments for which permit issuance has virtually come to a standstill in large p…

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It is not only the cabinet's nitrogen plans that are giving farmers sleepless nights. The standard of a maximum of 2.6 cows per hectare is also causing headaches. "This came as a surprise to us."

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In late June, the cabinet presented a package intended to free the Netherlands from the nitrogen deadlock. One of the measures: a maximum of 2.6 cows per hectare. The plan is causing considerable headaches for both farmers and administrators. "We can live with many proposals, but this is asking too much."