Dutch Farmers Win Political Battle but ‘the War itself Rages on’ March 22, 2023 Unipro2013main European News, Farming, News, Politics </p> <h2>Dutch Farmers definitely “Won the Battle”</h2> <p> Webster University Assistant Professor Ralph Schoellhammer says Dutch farmers definitely “won the battle” as the Farmer-Citizen Movement looks set to be the biggest party in the nation’s upper house, but the “war itself rages on”.</p> <p>The farmers’ party was only set up in 2019 and won almost 20 per cent of the vote.</p> <p>“This is really a great success, we should not minimise it, but we should also keep in mind … the Dutch farmers are a kind of their own,” Mr Schoellhammer told Sky News Australia.</p> <p>“They are the Silicon Valley of agriculture, they are not like 19th-century yeoman farmers – they are very modern, industrialised, in many ways the best capitalism can offer.”<br /> <br /> Credit to : Sky News Australia</p> <p> Please support our Sponsors here :
