In 2017, turnover in the dairy sector increased by 30 percent compared to 2016. Following the abolition of the milk quota in 2015, milk production rose, while the milk price fell until 2016. In 2017, the phosphate reduction plan for Dutch dairy farms was introduced, causing a drop in the number of dairy cows and a concomitant fall in milk production. The sharp increase in the milk price caused turnover and yields to bounce back in 2017.

In 2017, the number of organic dairy cows and calf cows aged 2 years or older rose to 39,000: a rise of 17 percent compared to 2016. In 2016, the increase was 27 percent compared to the year before. Since 2011, the number of organic dairy cows has increased by over 80 percent. These numbers include the cattle on farms in the process of switching from conventional to organic livestock farming.

The value of shrimp landed in the Netherlands reached a record of 87 million euros in 2017. This means that revenue from shrimp is catching up with that from sole: with a value of 99 million euros, sole is the most profitable fish in coastal fisheries. In 2000 things were very different, when sole was worth 151 million euros, compared to 28.5 million euros for shrimp. The increase in shrimp revenues is mainly due to the rising price: 7.31 euros per kilo in 2017 compared to 3.37 in 2000.

The arable land given over to sugar beet cultivation expanded from 71,000 hectares in 2016 to over 85,000 hectares in 2017. The European sugar beet quota was abolished on 1 September 2017. As a result of the introduction of new sugar beet varieties and new cultivation techniques, a record yield of 93 tonnes of sugar beet per hectare was achieved in 2017. The yield per hectare was 19 percent higher than the average for the period 2008–2016.

The harvest of fruits commonly regarded as vegetables (e.g. tomatoes, cucumbers, aubergines, courgettes and sweet peppers) has increased by 18 percent over the past ten years to reach almost 1.8 billion kg in 2017. The largest increase was in tomatoes. The tomato harvest increased by 225 million kg in ten years, a rise of 33 percent. Cucumber production fell by 7 percent to 400 million kg. Extreme weather damage to greenhouses, most notably in the De Peel region, led to a dip in the production of cucumbers in 2016.

The cultivation of flower bulbs has increased by 13 percent in ten years to nearly 27,000 hectares. This growth was mainly due to the increase in the area given over to the cultivation of tulips (25 percent) and lilies (30 percent). Half of the land given over to flower bulbs is intended for tulips. Lilies take second place, occupying almost a quarter of the bulb-growing area.

The greenhouse cultivation of cut flowers has fallen by 44 percent since 2007, to nearly 1.7 thousand hectares in 2017. The area devoted to orchid cultivation shrank by 46 percent for the same period. The area for freesias more than halved, while the area devoted to roses fell by almost two thirds. In the last five years, only the area for gerberas has held more or less steady. Cut flower cultivation is mainly losing ground to competition from Africa, where Dutch growers are also active.

Despite various national and European incentives, until 2016 there was very little increase in the area devoted to protein-rich crops, such as soya beans, lupins, field beans and peas for animal feed. In 2017, however, the land devoted to these crops expanded by no less than 64 percent compared to 2016, to cover an area of 1,330 hectares. Soya beans are mainly grown as a raw material for animal feed. The area for soya bean cultivation tripled between 2016 and 2017, from 140 hectares to 450 hectares.

The onion is the vegetable with the largest cultivation area in the Netherlands. In 2017 the onion crop covered almost 35,000 hectares, 40 percent of the total surface area for open-ground vegetable crops and 2 percent of all arable land. Onions are mainly grown on the sea clay soils of Flevoland and the Southwest Delta region (Zeeland and the surrounding area).