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Post by pieter on Jun 29, 2022 1:02:49 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Jun 29, 2022 1:06:38 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Jun 29, 2022 1:07:22 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Jun 29, 2022 1:08:40 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Jun 29, 2022 1:12:50 GMT -7
www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-49898359These protests take place for years now. You have one larger Farmers organisation which is moderate and you have the militant more radical farmers organisations ‘Farmers Defence Force’ and ‘AgroActie’.
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Post by pieter on Jun 29, 2022 1:14:53 GMT -7
Some radical farmers called for ‘civil war’ and said ‘let The Hague’ burn. They are extremely angry and their road blocks become a problem for civilians, companies, the transport and building sectors.
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Post by pieter on Jun 29, 2022 1:16:50 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Jun 29, 2022 1:20:50 GMT -7
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Post by karl on Jun 29, 2022 9:22:46 GMT -7
Pieter
Not sure if these farmers are angered over regulation of how much of their farm land is to be farmed and how much is to be left fallow and left to nature. Or,if their anger is over regulations of run off of nitrogen fertilizer from their fields in to the water ways.
Farming is a business for these people and any regulation that places limits upon their crops or prices, cuts in to their profit or loss ratio. For most all farm lands will have a natural run off of excess fertilizer such as both commercial type and natural animal waste. This run off if close to water ways will leach nitrogen compounds and give cause to issues with fish and weeded up water ways.
Government most often only enforces with out education of programmes useable to the individual farmer as an exchange. Most often, and not always, some of the best programmes are those of forming a partnership between government and Farmers in recognizing such issues and forming solutions. But, as it would appear, this is often not the case resulting in farmers anger and their retaliation against regulations that harm them.
Farmers are a tough lot and for a good reason, for they must deal with a multitude of forces that could destroy their crops and/or of every thing from insect invasion to weather fluctuations such as early frost, drought, storms and what ever nature tosses at them. This along with rising fuel cost, equipment repairs and replacement. It would appear that every thing is against the farmer, but he keeps at his chosen field non-the-less.
Karl
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Post by pieter on Jul 3, 2022 2:29:43 GMT -7
Karl, It has rational, scientific and emotional sides to it. The Dutch farmers are fighting to survive. Dutch and European legislation and international accords make it hard for them to maintain their conpanies if they have to reduce their production with 50%, 70% or 80% or 90%. Some companies even with 100% which means they have to stop farming. Their farms are bought by the state and their farmland becomes nature again. These former farmlands become part of Natura 2000. Natura 2000 is a network of nature protection areas in the territory of the European Union. It is made up of Special Areas of Conservation and Special Protection Areas designated under the Habitats Directive and the Birds Directive, respectively. The network includes both terrestrial and Marine Protected Areas. A Dutch farmer said; “If you expropriate and remove us, we will never come back.” Meaning that if a farm which is build by generations is put out of order and closed that is the end of that farm. A farmer will not take the risk of starting a new farm. A lot of Dutch farmers moved to Sweden, Norway, Canada, the USA, Southern America, Poland 🇵🇱 , *Ukraine 🇺🇦 and other countries. They became Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Ukrainian, Canadian, American and South American farmers. * milkua.info/en/post/dutch-farmer-become-a-big-ambassador-of-ukraine#:~:text=Dutchman%20Kees%20Huizinga%2C%20a%20large,in%20the%20centre%20of%20Ukraine. Cheers, Pieter |
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