Danitsja Rientjes is purchase supervisor on behalf of Interfarms Danmark ApS.
Danitsja has lived in Denmark since 2017, where she and her husband bought a dairy farm in Varde in 2018. Here, they milk 450 Jersey cows and farm 240 hectares of land. Danitsja has a lot of knowledge and experience in the agricultural (real estate) sector. During the Animal & Animal Husbandry course at Agrarische Hogeschool Larenstein in Deventer, she did her six-month internship in Denmark at the Sydvestjysk Landboforening (now Sagro). After completing her education, Danitsja started working at Countus accountants & advisers in Zwolle and at the same time took the Agrarian Business Advisor course in tax law, agricultural law and business economics.
At that time, Danitsja and her partner had a dairy farm with 70 cows in Wijhe in Overijssel. Foreign countries attracted them and so they sold their dairy farm in the Netherlands to emigrate to Germany. They moved to Jemgum, a village located in the state of Lower Saxony, in 2009. On this dairy farm, they milked 200 cows and had 110 ha of land. Besides working on the farm, Danitsja worked part-time as an emigration counsellor for Dutch farmers who wanted to emigrate to Germany.
Danitsja: ‘I really enjoy the whole process of looking for a suitable farm, making business plans, then buying the farm and finally implementing the plans made, and I like to support people as much as possible in this. Because we are farmers here ourselves, we know very well what is going on here and can therefore help people well on their way from our own experience.'
For all back-office matters, Danitsja works closely with Martine de Hoon. Martine works at Sagro as a business economics consultant. Martine also has a dairy farming background, knows the Danish agricultural market and, like Danitsja, speaks Dutch and, of course, Danish.