Farmers allowed to spread fertilizer during royal couple’s visit to Veere: ‘Mistake’

Farmers in the town of Zeeland de Veere will be allowed to spread fertilizer next Tuesday. The city had asked them in a letter not to do that during the working visit of King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima, but the city is now apologizing for that request.

“We made a mistake by asking you this in the letter,” Mayor Frederiek Schouwenaar writes in a new letter to Veere farmers. “We are very proud, both from the rural area and from the farmers. Therefore we should not have asked you the request we made. On behalf of the council, I would like to express my regret declare for this.”

The request for farmers not to spread fertilizer during the royal visit caused an uproar, reports say Broadcasting Zeeland. There was anger, especially in the rural area around Serooskerke.

There is a lot of political uproar about spreading fertilizers, in part because of the so-called nitrate managementalthough this is just the time of year it needs to happen. The farmers also wondered how much noise and noise the king and queen would have.

The city of Veere is now going backwards. In her letter, the mayor writes that “especially the beauty of Zeeland” should be shown to the royal couple on August 27. “And you, the farmers and everything that comes with it, are a very important part of this. Farmers who decide for themselves what their work will be like and when they will fertilizer.”

Not only will the King and Queen visit Veere and Serooskerke next Tuesday, but they will also go to Vlissingen, Middelburg and Domburg.