Amsterdam Flower Auction and harbour

Floraholland the worlds largest flower auction house. 20 million flowers per day sold & despatched within 24 hours of delivery to any capital city across the northern hemispher. 4500 employees working across a covered site of 170 ha, allot of roof area.




Dutch auction clock used to sell flowers at a rate of approx 1500 transactions per hour.


Completed the day with harbour cruise around the worlds busiest port, the below oil rig tender has a 700 tonne crane ready to lift anything close by.

Introductions

Wonderful day of introductions to the global scholars, 23 Australians, 3 Canadians, 1 Frenchman, 3 Irish, 3 Kiwi's, 23 from the UK, 4 from the Netherlands and two chaps form the USA completing their Eisenhower Fellowship. Business involvement and topics of study ranged from Precision Ag, city field farming, high welfare pig farming, Johnes disease in cattle, improving engagement in agriculture, influencing global agri politics and carbon farming. Allot of knowledge in a very small room.

First day in the Netherlands

Wow, 20 hours on a plane, 8 hours in a airport and 4 degrees outside temperature, big awakening to the Nuffield journey.

Great day touring Amsterdam & Rotterdam.

Very diversified operations, $40,000 ha land price (AUD), milking 140 cows, 5 wind farms, & 3 methane gas converters, tulips,onions & potatoes. Which one is making money, the government subsidies attached to milking cows.






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Location:Amsterdam