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Last January, Member of the European Parliament Jan Huitema gave a presentation during the Bles Dairies New Year Event at the Frisian Agricultural Museum. He emphasized that the Netherlands is frontrunner within the global agricultural sector and that the Dutch play an important exemplary role for other countries. We interviewed him about this vision for the dairy sector: What indicates that the Netherlands is a guiding country? “Dutch dairy farmers are the living proof of this idea,” says Huitema. “The agricultural industry in the Netherlands has, for instance, the smallest ecological footprint in the world.” This is partly thanks to ...

Last January, Member of the European Parliament Jan Huitema gave a presentation during the Bles Dairies New Year Event at the Frisian Agricultural Museum. He emphasized that the Netherlands is frontrunner within the global agricultural sector and that the Dutch play an important exemplary role for other countries. We interviewed him about this vision for the dairy sector: What indicates that the Netherlands is a guiding country? “Dutch dairy farmers are the living proof of this idea,” says Huitema. “The agricultural industry in the Netherlands has, for instance, the smallest ecological footprint in the world.” This is partly thanks to ...

Managing Director Henk Bles sets forth his views about the future of Bles Dairies. In this article his vision on gene technology. Is gene technology posing an opportunity or a threat? Let me explain why I think it is an absolute opportunity and why we cannot survive without this technology. Europe and specifically The Netherlands are the front-runners in agricultural technology, technology that we successfully built up during centuries. As a result, we are able to export breeding materials and products with a high quality added value and to share our knowledge around the world. Through research, development and innovations ...

Managing Director Henk Bles sets forth his views about the future of Bles Dairies. In this article his vision on gene technology. Is gene technology posing an opportunity or a threat? Let me explain why I think it is an absolute opportunity and why we cannot survive without this technology. Europe and specifically The Netherlands are the front-runners in agricultural technology, technology that we successfully built up during centuries. As a result, we are able to export breeding materials and products with a high quality added value and to share our knowledge around the world. Through research, development and innovations ...

This week, Martin de Jong and Dirk Harting attended a seminar in Nairobi that addressed the subject of Milk Quality & Food Safety. More than hundred representatives of the whole dairy value chain participated in this seminar, which was organised by SNV Netherlands Development Organisation and the Kenyan Dairy Board. The reason for organizing the seminar was that over the last decades the Kenyan dairy sector experienced challenges to comply with food safety standards of raw milk. The current volume based milk payment method does not provide enough incentive for farmers and dairy cooperatives to pay attention to and improve aspects of milk quality and ...

This week, Martin de Jong and Dirk Harting attended a seminar in Nairobi that addressed the subject of Milk Quality & Food Safety. More than hundred representatives of the whole dairy value chain participated in this seminar, which was organised by SNV Netherlands Development Organisation and the Kenyan Dairy Board. The reason for organizing the seminar was that over the last decades the Kenyan dairy sector experienced challenges to comply with food safety standards of raw milk. The current volume based milk payment method does not provide enough incentive for farmers and dairy cooperatives to pay attention to and improve aspects of milk quality and ...

Weet jij hoe je een internationaal netwerk moet uitbouwen, ben je ondernemend en gericht op commercieel resultaat? Bles Dairies in Leeuwarden, een belangrijke speler in de internationale melkveehouderij sector, is op zoek naar een Business Development Manager die nieuwe dairy projecten gaat binnenhalen in Afrika, Azië, het Midden Oosten en Rusland. Wat ga je doen als Business Development Manager? Je bent verantwoordelijk voor het uitbreiden van de wereldwijde marktpositie van Bles Dairies in small en large scale dairy development. Je signaleert mogelijkheden voor nieuwe projecten en weet hier op in te spelen. Je werkt nauw samen met de MD en ...

Weet jij hoe je een internationaal netwerk moet uitbouwen, ben je ondernemend en gericht op commercieel resultaat? Bles Dairies in Leeuwarden, een belangrijke speler in de internationale melkveehouderij sector, is op zoek naar een Business Development Manager die nieuwe dairy projecten gaat binnenhalen in Afrika, Azië, het Midden Oosten en Rusland. Wat ga je doen als Business Development Manager? Je bent verantwoordelijk voor het uitbreiden van de wereldwijde marktpositie van Bles Dairies in small en large scale dairy development. Je signaleert mogelijkheden voor nieuwe projecten en weet hier op in te spelen. Je werkt nauw samen met de MD en ...

Managing Director Henk Bles sets forth his views about the future of Bles Dairies. In this article his vision on creating a Green Revolution. Today’s main topics in agriculture are about climate control and how to feed the world’s growing population in a sustainable way. As a result perhaps even more significant is the increasing migration. How can this happen? In most African countries the population is growing each year with 2.5% to 3%. Can we believe that in about 35 years the population in those countries will double? We know there is a relationship between the number of children per ...

Managing Director Henk Bles sets forth his views about the future of Bles Dairies. In this article his vision on creating a Green Revolution. Today’s main topics in agriculture are about climate control and how to feed the world’s growing population in a sustainable way. As a result perhaps even more significant is the increasing migration. How can this happen? In most African countries the population is growing each year with 2.5% to 3%. Can we believe that in about 35 years the population in those countries will double? We know there is a relationship between the number of children per ...

Technology continues to reshape the genetics industry. Artificial insemination was the first ‘game changer’ and there have been many more to follow. Luc Libberecht, Sales Director for Semex Holland, in The Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark, tells his story about the recent developments within the genetics industry. Proven or genomics? For the past decade, genomics has dominated dairy herd improvement discussions. At the start, ten years ago, there was a lot of controversy and many farmers had doubts about this new breeding strategy. Today, for many breeders, using proven or genomic bulls is not an issue anymore! Farmers simply look for ...

Technology continues to reshape the genetics industry. Artificial insemination was the first ‘game changer’ and there have been many more to follow. Luc Libberecht, Sales Director for Semex Holland, in The Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark, tells his story about the recent developments within the genetics industry. Proven or genomics? For the past decade, genomics has dominated dairy herd improvement discussions. At the start, ten years ago, there was a lot of controversy and many farmers had doubts about this new breeding strategy. Today, for many breeders, using proven or genomic bulls is not an issue anymore! Farmers simply look for ...