Agriculture minister Femke Wiersma has come under pressure from her coalition partners to speed up the buyout of farmers to ...

Agriculture minister Femke Wiersma is coming under increasing pressure to exempt pig and poultry farmers from stricter ...

MPs have backed agriculture minister Femke Wiersma’s plans to cut livestock numbers in order to keep pollution from manure ...

Farm minister Femke Wiersma has backed down over her decision not to ban the use of electric cattle prods by Dutch farmers and slaughterhouse workers, following an outcry in the lower house of ...

Farm minister Femke Wiersma has said she is rethinking a proposed ban on the use of electric prods by the livestock sector, despite a string of abuses in the past. Wiersma’s predecessor Piet Adema ...

The paper says that farm minister Femke Wiersma is planning drastic cuts in the number of livestock on Dutch farms in an effort to reduce the size of the manure mountain to legal limits. Wiersma is a ...