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Anger simmers for Dutch farmers who oppose pollution cuts

FILE- A sign reads "Number Are Changed, Farmers Get Screwed" along the motorway near Drachten, northern Netherlands, Monday, July 4, 2022. Dutch farmers angry at government plans to slash emissions used tractors and trucks Monday to blockade supermarket distribution centers, the latest actions in a summer of discontent in the country's lucrative agricultural sector. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File) FILE- Protesting farmers talk at a blockade outside a distribution center for supermarket chain Aldi in the town of Drachten, northern Netherlands, Monday, July 4, 2022. Dutch farmers angry at government plans to slash emissions used tractors and trucks Monday to blockade supermarket distribution centers, the latest actions in a summer of discontent in the country's lucrative agricultural sector. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File) FILE- Protesting farmers talk during a blockade outside a distribution center for supermarket chain Aldi in the town of Drachten, northern Netherlands, Monday, July 4, 2022. Dutch farmers angry at government plans to slash emissions used tractors and trucks Monday to blockade supermarket distribution centers, the latest actions in a summer of discontent in the country's lucrative agricultural sector. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File) FILE- Some 25 tractors were used to blockade a distribution center for supermarket chain Albert Heijn in the town of Zaandam, just north of Amsterdam, Monday, July 4, 2022. Dutch farmers angry at government plans to slash emissions used tractors and trucks Monday to blockade supermarket distribution centers, the latest actions in a summer of discontent in the country's lucrative agricultural sector. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File) Some of Jaap Zegwaard's herd of 180 cattle, mostly black and white Holstein-Friesians, graze in fields behind his milking barns in Maasland, near Rotterdam, Netherlands Friday, July 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Mike Corder) Some of Jaap Zegwaard's herd of 180 cattle, mostly black and white Holstein-Friesians, graze in fields behind his milking barns in Maasland, near Rotterdam, Netherlands Friday, July 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Mike Corder) FILE - Thousand of farmers converged on The Hague, Netherlands, Feb. 19, 2020, during a protest against the government's plans to rein in emissions of nitrogen oxide. The Dutch government unveiled goals Friday June 10, 2022, to drastically reduce emissions of nitrogen oxides to protect the environment, a plan that would lead to major upheavals in the Netherlands' multibillion dollar agriculture industry and has already angered some farmers. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File) Some of Jaap Zegwaard's herd of 180 cattle, mostly black and white Holstein-Friesians, eat in his milking barns in Maasland, near Rotterdam, Netherlands Friday, July 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Mike Corder) Jaap Zegwaard watches some some of his herd of 180 cattle, mostly black and white Holstein-Friesians, eat in his milking barns in Maasland, near Rotterdam, Netherlands Friday, July 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Mike Corder) Protesting farmers block a drawbridge at locks in the Princess Margriet canal, preventing all ship traffic from passing in Gaarkeuken, northern Netherlands, Monday, July 4, 2022. Dutch farmers angry at government plans to slash emissions also used tractors and trucks Monday to blockade supermarket distribution centers, the latest actions in a summer of discontent in the country's lucrative agricultural sector. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)