|
|
Post by pieter on Oct 22, 2019 19:01:44 GMT -7
After the Dutch and Belgian farmers now the German farmers are protesting.
|
|
|
|
Post by pieter on Oct 22, 2019 19:02:36 GMT -7
|
|
|
|
Post by pieter on Oct 22, 2019 19:04:46 GMT -7
|
|
|
|
Post by pieter on Oct 22, 2019 19:07:42 GMT -7
|
|
|
|
Post by pieter on Oct 22, 2019 19:10:20 GMT -7
|
|
|
|
Post by karl on Oct 23, 2019 13:49:47 GMT -7
Pieter Yes, this issue is a public concern and yet, the public demands high quality foods and safe water with this, reasonable food prices as the product grown by farmers. It not only the above of public expectations of famers, but also the matter that Farmers are caught in a vice between several factors being: uncertain market prices/uncertain weather condition such as storms, droughts, insect infestations, floods and such. These things are out of the control of farmers, but yet they must insure a full seasonal production to stay in business. With all of these, is the rising cost of fuel, equipment repairs, maintenance and equipment replacement with of course, labour both seasonal and contractual year around. For if above is not enough for farmers to deal with, they must also contend with ever increasing goverment regulations and taxes that seem to be designed as an additional stumbling blocks the farmer must contend with and yet stay profitable to make ends meet. What is taken out of the ground with farming, must be replaced and one of those ingredients is what this is all about, nitrate run off. For as with various ingredients contained in fertilizer, is nitrate and what the plants do not obsorb, is not retained by the soil, but desolved in water resulting in leaching down through the soil eventually reaching the water table. A counter argument of instead of use of concentrated commercial fertilizer, to use animal fertilizer. This then creates a new set of concerns with surrounding communities dealing with the smell and the field run off with related health issues. www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/poor-management-in-german-nitrate-pollution-case-farmers-assocation-chief-says/Karl |
|
