Animal husbandry

Expanding the range of tourist offer in a LAG area by supporting a small farm to diversify into horseback riding and therapeutic riding.

A livestock farmer received training and undertook a consultation to find out how to improve animal welfare on his farm.

An integrated, community focussed model for quality meat production based on short supply chains, working together, and exchanging experiences between consumers and producers.

A market-driven investment to increase a sheep farm’s competitiveness, through the intensification of high quality organic milk production.

An agricultural cooperative invested in setting up organic apple orchards with anti-hail nets. They also acquired agricultural machinery to support the production of organic beef.

An organic mountain farm uses indigenous breeds to produce high-quality meat, while preserving the local environment and genetic resources.

The future-proof peat meadow polder ‘Lange Weide’, is unique bottom-up initiative and the largest submerged drainage project in the Netherlands.

A cheese-producing farm used RDP support to set up a new plant for producing speciality cheeses and ensure its long-term financial sustainability.

A modern hen farm producing eggs for human consumption, set up a new unit to process non commercial eggs and therefore increase its competitiveness.

An example of a large-scale previously state owned farm, which now successfully combines economic sustainability and the provision of public goods.