Webster University Assistant Professor Ralph Schoellhammer says Dutch farmers definitely “won the battle” as the Farmer-Citizen Movement looks set to be the biggest party in the nation’s upper house, but the “war itself rages on”.
“This is really a great success, we should not minimise it, but we should also keep in mind … the Dutch farmers are a kind of their own,” Mr Schoellhammer told Sky News Australia.
“They are the Silicon Valley of agriculture, they are not like 19th-century yeoman farmers – they are very modern, industrialised, in many ways the best capitalism can offer.”
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