Defeat for Dutch plan to put cows on diet so homes can be built
Dutch agriculture minister Carola Schouten with her ministry officials: she has had to drop a proposal to force dairy farmers to feed less protein.
Animal feed measures to limit nitrogen emissions have been abandoned in the Netherlands, but are going ahead in Ireland.
Here, concentrate rations fed to livestock at grass on nitrate derogation farms from April 1 to September 15 cannot be more than 16% crude protein (CP) this year, and no more than 15% CP in 2021. But Dutch agriculture minister Carola Schouten’s similar proposal has been scrapped after strong farmer opposition.
