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

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

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

A new variant of the bluetongue virus has been detected in a sheep in Kockengen, in the Netherlands. It was identified as ...

A new variant of the bluetongue virus has been identified in a sheep in Kockengen. It was identified as bluetongue serotype ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new variant of the bluetongue virus has been identified in a sheep in Kockengen. It was identified as bluetongue serotype ...