SPD on agriculture

The SPD wants to stop rising prices for leasing and buying farmland. To do so, it plans to strengthen the agricultural right of first refusal in order to limit investors from outside the sector.

Farmland keeps getting more expensive. The SPD wants to stop that. Farmers should be allowed to buy land before other buyers. This is called the right of first refusal. The SPD wants to make it stronger. Outside investors should get less land.

The measure is meant to support local family farming, whose businesses, according to the platform, often worry about the future. It targets rising prices in lease and purchase contracts. Investors who do not come from agriculture are to face limits.

The SPD wants less fertilizer and pesticide use, more protection of biodiversity and farm subsidies that make sustainable farming competitive. It points to agriculture's role in climate change and its vulnerability to drought and heavy rain.

The SPD wants farming that protects nature and the climate. Farmers should use less fertilizer and fewer pesticides. Subsidies should help sustainable farms. The state should get its own plan for growing crops.

Farm subsidy programs are to be designed so that sustainable farms can compete. The national arable farming strategy is to be developed into a state-level strategy, since the SPD sees soil protection as climate protection. Together with farmers and researchers, the party wants to define future clusters. The SPD welcomes the EU's Farm to Fork strategy and backs a reform of the Common Agricultural Policy that puts farmers' contributions to conservation and food security at the center of funding.

The SPD wants to support farms in changing course with advice, more training options and digital infrastructure. The Chamber of Agriculture is to play a central role.

Farmers should get help with change. The SPD wants good advice for farms. There should be more training in green jobs. These are jobs in farming. Farms should get fast internet.

The Chamber of Agriculture is to offer socio-economic advice, continuing education and independent business guidance, with attention to women working on farms. Cross-company training is to get more money. The party will consider a new training track that covers areas such as tourism, direct sales, senior care, on-farm daycare and energy. For digitalization, the platform names strong data connections, a legal basis for new technology, data protection and full broadband coverage.

The SPD wants more food from the region to be processed, sold and eaten in the state. It plans marketing support, regional food in daycare centers and schools, and an overall strategy for the food industry.

The SPD wants more food from the region. Supermarkets should show regional products better. Daycare centers and schools should get more regional food. Slaughterhouses in the region should stay. Children should learn more about healthy eating.

The plan includes a "regional meter" of shelf space in supermarkets, updated regional quality labels and support for regional marketing. A cluster and an overall strategy developed with those involved are meant to ensure that raw materials from the state are processed there more often. Regional slaughter capacity is to be kept and funded to avoid transport and strengthen skilled trades. Knowledge about healthy eating and the value of food is to grow in all age groups, especially among children and teenagers.

The SPD wants to work with family farms to promote agriculture that combines environmental protection, animal welfare, social fairness and profitability. The aim is for biodiversity in the farmed landscape to recover. It wants to shape the expansion of renewable energy in rural areas together with local residents.

The SPD wants farming that protects nature. There should be more kinds of animals and plants again. Family farms should take part. Wind and solar power should also grow in the countryside.

The platform regards biodiversity in the farmed landscape and in rural settlements as endangered. Its goals are protected waters, a varied landscape and sustainably produced regional food. According to the SPD, agriculture is to make its own contribution to climate and nature protection. The party explicitly accepts that renewable energy will change the look of the landscape in parts of the state.