For us rye is not just a mediocre crop used as fodder, but an appetising daily breakfast food and a staple in our traditional food culture.
On one side of the planet, we have to sell livestock due to a lack of water and fodder.
It has been able to make use of good levels of coarse fodder productivity in areas that are infertile, for example.
Secondly, it also makes sense to maintain the existing special entitlements scheme, especially for special fodder rights.
The current report supports the lifting of the ban on the use of fish oil and flour in ruminant fodder.
We do not think that fodder legumes are necessarily any better for the environment than other plant species.
The reason is more likely to have been that we were able to impose strict border controls and that we had limited use of antibiotics in animal fodder.
I am thinking in particular of the cattle fodder they use and of the sanitary and environmental quality of slurry which they are likely to spread on their fields.
