Rob Meeuwissen is fully committed to his arable farming business. By participating in the reorganization scheme for livestok farms, he says goodbye to the finishing pigs. The meat livestok stable with 1,680 berths is now making way for a potato storage shed with a capacity of 2,800 tons.
Image: Susan Rexwinkel
Rob Meeuwissen (37) is one of the 305 pig farmers from Brabant who signed up for the subsidy scheme for the rehabilitation of pig farms at the beginning of 2020. Nationally, 503 pig farmers had registered.
Physical complaints
In the autumn of 2019, Meeuwissen’s subsidy scheme for the rehabilitation of pig farms came along at the right time. For the past two years he has rented out his two fattening pig stables to a neighboring livestok farmer. Physical complaints were the reason for this rental. “After a day of work in the barn, I was invariably very tired in the evenings and I was struggling with persistent respiratory complaints. After a long journey through the medical circuit, it turned out that I was struggling with asthmatic complaints. These worsen when I am working in the stable. If I stay outside in the fields, I will not be bothered by anything. ”
For many years, the arable sector has been the most important part of Rob Meeuwissen’s company. Now that the last livestoks have left the yard for good and the stables have almost been demolished, he can fully concentrate on his fields and crops. The area of Meeuwissen Agro BV covers approximately 205 hectares. With normally 90 hectares, the potatoes are the most important crop. He grows the Fontane and Ivory Russet varieties partly under contract and partly freely. He grows the seed potatoes on 5 hectares himself.
Read the full report in the Stal & Akker on Saturday 27 March
