Organisation: Dutch Agriculture Ministry

A COMPREHENSIVE SERIES OF ARTICLES ON THIS TOPIC

EU pesticide proposals threaten tillage farming

TILLAGE farming may become uneconomic due to EU proposals to limit effective products used to control the fungal diseases to which Irish grain and potato crops are uniquely vulnerable.

Thu, 16 Oct, 2008

Deadly animal disease prompts Dutch export ban

The Dutch Agriculture Ministry has halted all exports of live sheep, cows and goats after an outbreak of bluetongue.

Sun, 20 Aug, 2006

Dutch poultry ordered indoors to prevent bird flu

The Dutch Agriculture Ministry has ordered all commercial poultry farmers to get their fowl indoors by Monday to prevent them from catching avian flu from wild birds.

Fri, 19 Aug, 2005

Dutch foot-and-mouth cases rise to five

The Dutch Agriculture Ministry has confirmed a new case of foot-and-mouth disease to take the total number of infected farms in the Netherlands to five.

Sun, 25 Mar, 2001