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Thousands of Dutch farmers protest, fearing government cuts

Thousands of farmers gathered in the central Netherlands Wednesday to protest the Dutch government's plans to rein in emissions of nitrogen oxide and ammonia, driving their tractors across the Netherlands and snarling traffic on major highways.

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Farmers hooted their tractors' horns as they drove onto the field, where a banner on a truck read, in Dutch, "What The Hague chooses is deeply sad for the farmer," a reference to lawmakers in the city that houses the Netherlands' parliament. Another banner on a tractor said: "We can no longer be stopped."