The Netherlands call for help after floods continue

The bales are for suckler cow farmer René Berden in Sint Odiliënberg in Limburg. The grassland plots of his mixed farm are almost all located on the Roer, a tributary of the Maas in Limburg. No less than 100 hectares of grassland were under water for a long time. 'More than 25 hectares of grass is dead,' says the Limburg entrepreneur. 'This year there will be no more grass from the land. Fortunately, the winter stock was already largely in. But the herds can no longer go outside, so I have already had to use this stock. The hay donation came at the right time.' Out of necessity in the stable Out of necessity, he has put about two hundred animals in stables, except for one herd that can walk outside on a house plot. 'Our company is not set up to house herds of cows with larger calves and a breeding bull. For that reason, we had to wean some calves from their mothers earlier at the age of five instead of six or seven months.' Berden estimates the extra work, water damage, ...