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[[File:Dutch police.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Armed Dutch police breaking up farm protest against EU environmental radicalism.<ref>https://rmx.news/poland/poland-shocked-after-dutch-farmers-shot-at-by-police-expert-warns-of-violence-seen-in-western-liberal-democracies-coming-east/</ref>]]

[[File:Dutch police.PNG|right|300px|thumb|Armed Dutch police breaking up farm protest against EU environmental radicalism.<ref>https://rmx.news/poland/poland-shocked-after-dutch-farmers-shot-at-by-police-expert-warns-of-violence-seen-in-western-liberal-democracies-coming-east/</ref>]]

'''Dutch farmers''' are important opponents of [[global warming]] alarmists in [[Europe]].  Dutch livestock farmers have been protesting [[liberal]] attempts to reduce livestock by 30% by 2030 and requirements to reduce [[nitrogen]] fertilizers.

'''Dutch farmers''' are important opponents of [[global warming]] alarmists in [[Europe]].  Dutch livestock farmers have been protesting [[liberal]] attempts to reduce livestock by 30% by 2030 and requirements to reduce [[nitrogen]] fertilizers. Protests against anti-farming regulations of the [[EU]] -- which require up to 70% reductions -- spread across Europe in the summer of 2022: "Now, in a show of solidarity, German, Italian, Spanish and Polish farmers have launched protests, in what is fast becoming an EU-wide campaign against 'anti-farming' policies."<ref>https://www.fwi.co.uk/news/environment/dutch-farmer-protests-against-emissions-cuts-spread-across-eu</ref>

In the [[Netherlands]], 54% of the country is farmland, and in 2020 there were 16,000 dairy farms.  There is one cow for every ten persons, totaling 1.59 million cows in the small country.

In the [[Netherlands]], 54% of the country is farmland, and in 2020 there were 16,000 dairy farms.  There is one cow for every ten persons, totaling 1.59 million cows in the small country.

== See also ==

== See also ==

*[[European farming]]

*[[European farming]]

== References ==

== References ==