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 ...

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 ...

The Dutch government has been in power for little over three months, but given the deep-seated mistrust, public spats and the ...

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 ...

Minister of Agriculture Femke Wiersma (BBB) does not want a ban on electric shock devices in the livestock trade after all. After RTL Nieuws's report, her ministry confirmed that Wiersma wants to ...

That now won’t happen, thanks to the decision by the Farmer-Citizen Movement (BBB), new Agriculture Minister Femke Wiersma’s ...

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