What do the parties in Bavaria say on agriculture?

The AfD wants to transfer agricultural policy from the EU back to the member states; within Germany, the federal states should be in charge. It considers funding via the EU cumbersome, expensive and contrary to the principle of subsidiarity.

Today the EU decides a lot about farming. The AfD wants to change that. Each country should decide for itself. In Germany, the federal states should be in charge.

The AfD commits to small-scale farming and wants to permanently raise the level of self-sufficiency in staple foods. Organic and conventional farming should compete without a prescribed target quota. It wants to cut back regulations for farmers and consumers.

The AfD wants to support small farms. Bavaria should produce more of its own food. There should be no fixed quota for organic farming. Farmers should have fewer rules.

The CSU wants to promote regional food, regardless of whether it is produced organically or conventionally. To do so, the value-added tax on these products is to be cut permanently. Cafeterias, daycare centers and schools are to serve more regional products.

The CSU wants to promote food from the region. The tax on this food should go down. In daycare centers and schools, half of the food should be regional. Everyone should decide for themselves what to eat.

The CSU wants to preserve family farms and relieve them of regulations and levies. It calls for less red tape, a halt to new burdens and tax exemption for agricultural diesel and farm machinery. It rejects requirements to set land aside and to reduce livestock farming.

The CSU wants to protect family farms. Farmers should have fewer rules and less paperwork. Diesel for tractors should be tax-free. Farmers should decide about their own fields.

The Free Voters want to preserve family farming, including livestock, across Bavaria and thereby secure the domestic food supply. Red tape and requirements are to be reduced and tightened fertilizer rules reversed. On forests and hunting, the party rejects further set-asides, new national parks and stricter gun laws.

The Free Voters want to keep Bavaria's family farms. Farmers should have less paperwork. Stricter rules on fertilizer should be dropped again. There should be no new national parks. Hunters should be allowed to hunt wolves. Gun laws should not get stricter.

The Free Voters want to preserve small and mid-sized farms and food businesses and expand direct sales. They want to take on dominant players in the food trade and better protect local producers from cheap imports.

The Free Voters want to keep small farms, butchers and bakers. Farmers should find it easier to sell their goods directly. The party is critical of cheap goods from abroad. Grazing animals should be protected from wolves.

The Greens want to boost demand for regional, organic and plant-based food from Bavaria and make Bio-Regio a standard label. In state-run cafeterias, at least half of the dishes are to be organic by 2025. Farmers should be able to make a reliable living from their work.

The Greens want more organic food from Bavaria. In state cafeterias, every second dish should be organic by 2025. There should be meat-free food everywhere too. Farmers should get fair prices. Long contracts with cafeterias should help farmers.

The Greens believe the statutory target of 30 percent organic farming by 2030 can be reached sooner and that even half of all farmland could be farmed organically. To get there, they want to fund long-term projects and strengthen organic farming in research and teaching.

By 2030, 30 percent of fields in Bavaria should be organic. That is already the law. The Greens want more: half of the fields should be organic. They want to fund organic projects for this. Half of the money for farm research should go to organic farming.

The Greens aim for agriculture without synthetic chemical pesticides and want glyphosate and neonicotinoids outlawed across Europe. At the same time, farms are to be paid better for nature, climate and species protection, and waters and soils are to be better protected.

The Greens want no chemical sprays on the fields. Two sprays should be banned in all of Europe. Farmers should get more money for protecting nature. Along streams and rivers there should be strips with no fertilizer. Fields and meadows should not be built over.

The Greens want Bavarian agriculture to stay free of genetic engineering and count new genomic techniques as genetic engineering too. They reject patents on seeds and animals; old varieties are to be preserved through a funding program.

The Greens want no genetic engineering on the fields. This also covers new gene methods. Food and animal feed made with it should be clearly labeled. Nobody should hold a patent on seeds or animals. Old plant varieties should be kept.

The Greens want livestock farming to be guided by the animals' needs and to increase funding for barn conversions. Husbandry levels 1 and 2 are to be phased out by 2035, pasture grazing expanded and antibiotic use sharply reduced.

The Greens want farm animals to have a better life. Farmers get money for better barns with more space. More animals should go out to pasture. The two lowest levels of animal keeping should be gone by 2035. Animals should get far fewer antibiotics.

The SPD wants to preserve an agriculture shaped by owner-run family farms and counter the decline of small farms. It wants to support young farmers and prevent farmland from accumulating in the hands of large operations and corporations from outside agriculture.

The SPD wants to keep small and mid-sized farms. Young farmers should get help. Big companies should not buy up more and more farmland. The SPD says farmland belongs in farmers' hands.

The SPD wants at least 30 percent of Bavaria's farmland to be farmed organically by 2030. Subsidies are to flow less as flat per-area payments and more as rewards for services to nature and the common good.

The SPD wants more organic farming in Bavaria. By 2030 it should cover at least 30 percent of farmland. Farmers who do more for nature should get more money. State cafeterias should mostly buy organic food from the region.

The SPD advocates species-appropriate livestock farming and wants to give more support to alternative husbandry methods. Husbandry method and origin are to be labeled on a mandatory basis so that farms benefit from the quality of their products.

The SPD wants farm animals to live better. Products should show how and where the animal lived. Animals should only be transported short distances. Animal testing in research should stop as far as possible.

The SPD wants to create minimum standards for agricultural workers and penalize farms that exploit their labor. It also wants to protect local farms from unfair trading practices and dumping prices.

The SPD wants to protect people who work on farms. Farms that exploit workers should get less subsidy money. Farmers themselves should also be protected. Retailers should not be allowed to demand dumping prices. These are prices that are unfairly low.