Dutch farms are feeling the squeeze from EU rules and need to make sweeping changes to the farm system – could a huge producer like the US follow suit?
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Senay Boztasin AmsterdamMon 16 Jan 2023 06.00 EST
- https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/16/netherlands-european-union-regulations-livestock
Ingrid de Sain is one of thousands of dairy farmers in the Netherlands who says she sometimes lies awake at night. Since a court rulingin 2019which found the Dutch were breaking European environmental law, her farm of 100 cows in north Holland has been illegal.
Like the other2,500-plus farmerswhose environmental permission was suddenly invalid,she wants a futurewhere she can earn a living and farm legally again.
The Netherlands is first to face questions scientists believe will soon come to all intensively farmed areas: how can…
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