Comments by "bighand69" (@bighands69) on "Dutch farmers form tractor blockade in 'massive' protest over nitrogen policy" video.

  1. As an owner of several farms with extensive plant and machinery I can tell you with absolute certainty that complete electric plant and vehicles is simply not realistic. Harvesters may have to run for 12 hours to 17 hours per day when the weather is good enough and there is no way a singular electric harvester could do the job of one diesel harvester and there would be a need for several of them. Now unless those mad policy makers intend to put charging points in the middle of fields there is no way they can achieve it right now. Maybe in the future there maybe better battery technology but guess what we are not in the future.
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  2. The public in most European countries are going to have to deal with the realism at some point. Europe has regulated its food, energy and manufacturing out of existence. When the global order collapses which it will Europe is going to be a dark place economically for a few decades.
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  3. There are extreme regulations all over Europe. Many farmers have had to not work their fields as it could cause distress to flies. The constant media lies about bee populations with out real significant data to back up the claims is just stated as fact. You will hear slogans like where have all bee's gone. Like anybody in a city really would have a clue about bees or even birds in the countryside. And here is the biggest irony of it all the EU has allowed its Nitrogen production to be outsourced to Russia.
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  4. I think they are too late. They are now reacting the conditions of the market place rather than being proactive to ensure that the conditions would never been introduced. Very few farmers opposed the European cap system that has created all these issues in the first place. Too many people have bought into the idea that CAP was to help farmers when in fact it was there to control farmers to do the bidding of the policy makers. The idea that the EU would pay farmers to not use their land so as to save some flies that were never in danger in the first place.
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  5. Every country in Europe has crazy regulations. I remember reading that one farmer had too many cattle in one field as he reached the regulations limits. They accused him and it went to court and how did they prove that he was doing it they used satellite photos to demonstrate the amount of cattle at any one time over a rolling period of time. Other farmers had to not use certain fields because there was a chance that it could cause distress to flies.
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  6. Here is the real madness of it all. Countries inside the EU regulated the manufacturing of nitrogen fertilizers out of production. And then turned around and allowed Russia to become the defacto supplier to Europe of nitrogen fertilizer. This only happened because the public have been politically agnostic and non active for the last 30 years.
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  7. All while Europe imports its nitrogen fertilizer from Russia.
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  8. They are the same group of policy strategists that think coal, gas and oil are not needed because there are a few windmills in Denmark that work on a few days of the year. All while their media university day buddies cheer on the success of newables keeping the public out of the light on the issues.
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  9. I am in the US were there are regulations but nothing compared to what Europe is like. We do not have a CAP style system but there are grants and loans available but they require application and there is no free lunch. We run on market ability to produce and what is starting to take off as well is the idea of food manufacturing co-operatives where the farmers invest in industrial food production to create competition. Europe has it all locked out so that only summer markets get to dictate the pace of the market.
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  10. As long as there is a good energy system then water would not be a problem. But guess what the energy structure of Europe is a mess and is on the point of collapse. The population of Germany has increased by about 20% over the last few decades yet they have not built the energy capacity to deal with that.
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  11. They are not building houses. I can tell you that with certainty. Most European countries have seen their housing stock decrease over the last hundred years even though populations have been increasing. Cramming everybody into dirty high rise cities is now seen as progress.
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  12. It is all about control and maintaining power.
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