Thousands of farmers set to demonstrate against compulsory closures

Farmers organisations have decided to hold their protest against the government’s plans to crack down on nitrogen-based pollution near Barneveld, which is at the centre of the Netherlands’ intensive poultry farming industry. Ministers have already said that farms in some areas will have to close to slash nitrogen emissions and the Barneveld region is set to be particularly hard hit. Earlier plans to hold a protest in The Hague have now been abandoned. Instead, farmers will head for Stroe in...