Tag: Portengen
Farmer Joop from Portengen has already lost 24 sheep to bluetongue virus: ‘You are so powerless’
According to figures from the Dutch Food and Consumer Product Safety Authority (NVWA), more than 2,250 livestock farms are affected by the bluetongue virus. In our province there are infections…
Tribute to crashed plane Portengen: ‘Freedom is not obvious’
Some forty years later, in the eighties, the Boee family got new neighbors across the street. Including another Willem: Willem van der Linden. From the moment he heard about what…