What do the parties in Saxony say on agriculture?

The AfD wants the nation state rather than the EU to be responsible for agriculture again. Compensation payments to farmers would stay for now but no longer run through the EU. Funding programs would be simplified.

Today the EU decides a lot about farming. The AfD wants Germany to decide this itself again. Farmers should still get money from the state. Applying for it should be easier.

The state of Saxony would stop selling its farmland and forests and instead lease them long-term to local farms. The AfD wants to curb land speculation and protect local farmers from outside investors.

Saxony owns fields and forests. The AfD wants Saxony to stop selling this land. Local farmers should be able to lease it for a long time. Leasing means using it for a fee. This should stop outside investors from buying up land.

The AfD wants Saxony to supply itself with food as far as possible and to keep farming from moving abroad. It would support better conditions for farm animals, regional marketing, and allotment gardeners and small-scale animal keepers.

Saxony should produce much of its own food. For milk and eggs, things should stay as they are. For meat, Saxony should produce more. Farm animals should be kept in better conditions. The AfD also wants to help people with small gardens.

The BSW wants to reduce the administrative burden on farms and forestry businesses. Farm subsidies are to become simpler, and data should no longer be collected several times.

The BSW wants less paperwork for farmers and forest businesses. They should report their data only once. Getting farm support money should be easier. Farmers should have more freedom in how they work.

The BSW wants to ease the burden on livestock farms and support them more strongly through a master plan. For species such as wolves, beavers, and cormorants it considers wildlife management necessary, along with financial compensation for affected farms.

The BSW wants to help farmers with animals more. There should be a big plan for this in Saxony. Wolves, beavers, and cormorants cause damage for some farms. These farms should get money for that.

The BSW wants to reform the land market so that farmland goes first to local farmers. No more agricultural land is to be sealed over.

The BSW wants new rules for buying farmland. Local farmers should get the land first. Investors should not speculate with it. Farmland should no longer be built over.

The BSW wants to back farms with funding programs: for selling products locally, for organic farming, for adapting to changed weather conditions, and for young farmers taking over a farm. Farming and forestry should also contribute to the energy supply.

The BSW wants the state to help farmers with money. Farmers should be able to sell their goods nearby more easily. Large kitchens should use more organic food. Young farmers should get more help when they start. There should also be money for dealing with climate change.

The CDU wants the federal government to transpose EU law without additional national requirements so that Saxon farms face no competitive disadvantage. Farmers and foresters are to get less paperwork and more entrepreneurial freedom. Farmland is to be preserved.

The CDU wants to make work easier for farmers and foresters. Germany should not make EU rules stricter than needed. There should be less paperwork. Farmland should stay farmland. Farmers' groups should have a say early on.

The CDU wants to preserve livestock farming in Saxony and rejects tighter requirements for livestock farms. Fees related to slaughter are to fall, and regional slaughter capacity is to be supported.

The CDU wants farmers in Saxony to keep raising animals. The rules for this should not get stricter. Slaughter fees should go down. There should be more small local slaughterhouses.

The CDU wants to support forest owners in converting and replanting forests and to make the climate benefit of managed forests the basis of forestry policy. It considers certifications such as FSC in state-owned forests excessive and intends to withdraw them.

The CDU wants to help forest owners plant new trees. It says a managed forest is good for the climate. The FSC label in state-owned forests should go. FSC is a label for wood with strict rules. The CDU thinks these rules go too far.

The Free Voters want farming that is innovative, sustainable and regional, and they want to give special support to marketing local products. EU agricultural policy should be organized in a decentralized way, and farms should be funded regardless of size, without binding caps.

The Free Voters want to strengthen farmers in Saxony. Food from the region should be sold nearby. The EU should pay more attention to the regions in farm policy. Large and small farms should get the same support.

The Greens want farming to use significantly fewer pesticides, even after the EU extended the approval of glyphosate. Farms are to be supported in doing without chemical-synthetic products.

The Greens want less poison on the fields. Farmers should get help if they stop using chemical products. Authorities should check the use more closely.

The Greens want to develop organic farming further in line with demand and federal targets and to support farms that switch. Nitrate pollution in groundwater is to fall, and a humus strategy is meant to ensure healthy soils.

The Greens want more organic farming. Farmers get help when they switch. There should be less nitrate in groundwater. Nitrate is a substance from fertilizer. The soil should stay healthy.

The Greens want to achieve, at the EU level, a public-good premium with a simple points system that rewards farming's environmental services. Awarding the funds is to become simpler and red tape is to be cut.

Farmers get money from the EU. The Greens want this: Those who help the environment get points and money for them. The rules should become simpler.

The Greens want to expand regional food production and marketing and raise self-sufficiency, especially in vegetables. Daycare centers and schools are to serve considerably more food from organic and regional sources.

The Greens want more food from Saxony. Daycare centers and schools should serve more organic food from nearby. Regional markets should get help. Wine growing should also get support.

The Greens take a critical view of genetic engineering of crops in agriculture because of possible risks to people and the environment. Instead, traditional and organic breeding methods are to be strengthened. The party wants to support the bioeconomy and its research.

The Greens are critical of genetic engineering in plants. They name risks for people and the environment. They prefer breeding plants in the usual way. Research on products made from plants should get money.

The Greens want a Saxon farm structure law and rules on farm inheritance to curb high land prices, speculation and the disappearance of farms. In addition, start-ups, farm succession and recruiting skilled workers are to be supported, and farms are to be relieved of red tape.

Farmland has become expensive. The Greens want a law against this. It should protect farms. Young people should get help when they take over a farm. Farmers should have less paperwork.

The Greens want an animal welfare strategy for farm animals in Saxony that strengthens humane, land-based husbandry. Animal transports to countries outside the EU should be banned and regional slaughtering supported. A food strategy is meant to promote plant-based, seasonal and regional meals in public cafeterias.

The Greens want farm animals to live better. Animals should have more space and time outdoors. Animals should no longer be shipped to faraway countries. Cafeterias in schools and hospitals should serve more plant-based food from the region.

The Left wants diverse agriculture built on regional economic cycles. The market power of large retail chains, dairies and slaughterhouses should be reduced so farmers can negotiate better. The party backs minimum producer prices, for example for milk and meat.

The Left wants to help farmers in Saxony. They should sell more in their own region. Big supermarket chains should have less power. Milk and meat should have minimum prices. That way farmers should earn more.

The Left wants a law that bans retailers in Saxony from throwing away food. Following the French model, unsold goods would instead have to be donated, used in agriculture or processed into animal feed.

Stores often throw food away. The Left wants to ban that in Saxony. Stores should donate the food. Or farms can use it. Or it becomes feed for animals.

The Left wants to ban glyphosate on all land throughout Saxony, even though the EU has extended its approval. Mineral fertilizer and pesticide use on fields should also go down. The party also wants to promote climate-friendly forms of land use.

Glyphosate is a weed killer. The Left considers it very toxic. It wants to ban it in all of Saxony. Farmers should also use less artificial fertilizer and fewer sprays. New ways of farming should help the climate.

The Left rejects new genetic engineering methods such as CRISPR/Cas as well as patents on seeds, plants and animals. It wants to prevent the EU from largely dropping labeling for genetically modified organisms. Saxony should commit to staying free of genetic engineering.

Genetic engineering changes the genes of plants and animals. The Left rejects this in farming. It is also against patents on plants and animals. Such products should still carry a label. Saxony should have no genetic engineering in its fields.

The Left calls for an agricultural structure law that slows rising lease and purchase prices for farmland and limits the concentration of land in individual farms. In addition, new soil sealing is to fall step by step to net zero.

Farmland keeps getting more expensive. The Left wants a law that slows the prices. Single farms should not own too much land. Investors from outside farming should buy less land. Also, less ground should be built over.

The SPD wants to push the transformation of agriculture and tie public money to public benefits. Regional products are to be used more in cafeterias and communal catering, and besides organic farming, conventional farms are also to be supported for sustainability gains.

The SPD wants to change farming. Farmers should get state money for things that benefit everyone. Cafeterias should use more food from the region. Regular farms should also get support when they work more sustainably.

The SPD wants to promote sustainable methods in farming and food production and to strengthen organic agriculture. Public money should be tied to services for the common good, such as preserving ecosystems. Animal welfare is to carry great weight in livestock farming.

The SPD wants farming that is gentle on nature. Farmers should spray fewer chemicals. More farms should work organically. Animals should travel shorter distances. Every field should have fast mobile coverage.