What do the parties in Saxony-Anhalt say on agriculture?

The AfD wants to treat conventional and organic farms alike and rejects favoring particular types of farms. Farmers would be relieved of documentation and reporting duties, and regional production and marketing would receive a large share of economic development funding.

The AfD wants to support all farms equally. Organic farms should have no advantage over other farms. Farmers should have less paperwork. The state should give more support to regional food.

The AfD wants to end the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in the long run and have farm policy decided by Germany alone. It also rejects the EU Nature Restoration Regulation. The party argues this would cut red tape and allow subsidies to be targeted better.

Today the EU decides a lot about farming. The AfD wants to change that. Germany should decide about farming on its own again. The AfD is also against an EU law to protect nature. It says the law hurts farmers.

The AfD calls for a new agricultural structure law that gives farmers from the region priority in access to farmland. Land speculation and the concentration of large areas among a few owners are to be stopped. The platform argues that only farmers rooted in the area support village life.

The AfD wants a new law about farmland. Farmers from the region should get land more easily. A few owners should not hold very much land. Outside investors should have a harder time.

The AfD wants to relieve farmers and livestock keepers of costs and regulations. The Wassercent (water levy) on irrigation water would be dropped, fertilizer rules loosened and all livestock regulations reviewed. Keeping farm animals privately is also to become easier.

The AfD wants to ease the load on farmers. Water for the fields should no longer carry a fee. Farmers should decide for themselves how much fertilizer to use. The AfD wants to check the rules for keeping animals. It should also be easier to keep chickens or a pig at home.

The BSW wants to guarantee farms a buyer for regional products and have public institutions buy regionally first. This is meant to secure fair prices and act as a counterweight to free trade deals such as Mercosur.

Farmers in the state should be sure to sell their products. Public bodies should buy from them first. That keeps money in the region. New advice offices should help farmers with applications.

The BSW wants a state strategy against erosion and loss of humus, along with careful use of water in agriculture. Soil-friendly farming methods, diverse crops, research, and knowledge transfer are to be supported. The party rejects glyphosate.

The BSW wants to protect farmland soil. There should be a plan for the whole state. Hedges and many kinds of crops should keep the soil stable. Water should stay in the land better. The BSW rejects the weed killer glyphosate.

The BSW wants targeted support for small and mid-sized farms. Regional processing and marketing are to be expanded, including through purchases by public institutions in the region. The platform treats agriculture as a public task.

The BSW wants to help small and mid-sized farms. They should get funding and simpler rules. More food should be sold in the region. Public canteens and offices should buy locally too. This gives farms reliable customers.

The BSW wants to reduce farmers' reporting duties to a minimum and roll back official requirements on cultivation. Farms are to decide on crop rotation and catch crop harvests themselves. EU rules are to be adapted through state law for small and mid-sized farms.

Farmers must write many reports for the authorities. The BSW wants to cut these duties sharply. Farmers should decide for themselves what to grow and when. Counties should help farmers with reports. EU rules should become easier for small farms.

The CDU wants to make Saxony-Anhalt's agriculture the most innovative in Europe. Autonomous robots, drones, AI and new breeding techniques are to be deployed more quickly. This is meant to make farming more efficient and cheaper.

The CDU wants modern technology on the fields. Robots and drones should be easier to allow. New ways of breeding plants should help too. This should let farmers work at lower cost.

The CDU wants to sharply limit the use of farmland for other purposes and give priority to securing high-quality soils. Rural areas should have living conditions equal to those elsewhere. Regional marketing is to be supported.

The CDU wants to protect fields and meadows. Good soil should stay farmland and not be built on. Life in villages should be as good as in cities. Products from the region should get more promotion.

The CDU wants to preserve livestock farming in the state and rejects any further tightening of husbandry standards. Permits for barns are to become simpler and record-keeping duties are to be reduced. Those who invest should have planning certainty.

The CDU wants farmers in the state to keep raising animals. The rules for keeping animals should not get stricter. Farmers should be able to build barns more easily. They should have less paperwork.

The CDU wants to exempt farming and forestry from further increases in CO2 costs and to implement EU law without extra national requirements. Production costs, reporting duties and contributions for water maintenance are to fall. The party says the aim is fair conditions for competition.

The CDU does not want farmers to pay even more for CO2. Germany should not make stricter rules than the EU. Farmers should have less paperwork. Some fees for them should go down too.

For the EU's Common Agricultural Policy from 2028, the CDU wants to prevent payments to large farms from being capped or reduced on a sliding scale. It rejects cuts to the EU farm budget.

The EU pays money to farmers. New rules will apply from 2028. The CDU does not want large farms to get less money. The EU should not save money on farmers overall.

The CDU wants less food to be thrown away and wants to expand nutrition education for children and teenagers. In the platform's view, waste disrespects the work of producers. Consumer protection is also to be given more weight.

The CDU wants less food to end up in the trash. Children should learn more about healthy eating in daycare and school. The party also wants to protect consumers better. Consumers are people who buy things.

The Greens want to clearly increase the share of organic farming and raise payments for species and environmental protection on farmland. As a long-term goal, the program names organic management of all fields, meadows, and pastures.

The Greens want more organic farming. Farmers should get more money when they protect nature. For example, for flower strips next to fields. Animals should be kept in ways that suit them.

The Greens want an agricultural structure law to strengthen small and diverse farms and counter the loss of farms. Share purchases in companies that own farmland would be regulated so that land does not go to large investors.

Big companies are buying up farmland. The Greens want a law to limit this. Small farms should be able to stay. Young farmers should be able to start more easily.

The Greens want to gradually end the use of chemical-synthetic pesticides by 2035, starting with herbicides. Substances such as PFAS and glyphosate would be banned and farms inspected more often.

The Greens want no more chemical sprays on fields. This should end by 2035. Weed killers would go first. Glyphosate would also be banned.

The Greens want to restructure livestock farming so that it follows the animals' needs and ties the number of animals to the land available. Industrial livestock farming is to shrink in order to reduce environmental damage and animal welfare problems.

The Greens want farms to keep their animals better. A farm should only have as many animals as its land can support. There should be fewer very large animal farms. Farms that treat animals well should get public money.

The Left wants to secure access to farmland for those who actually work it. An agricultural structure law is to cap land prices and prevent land concentration, and share deals — buying stakes in farm companies to acquire their land — are to be banned.

The Left wants farmers to get land more easily. A new law should limit land prices. Outside investors should not be allowed to buy farms through company shares. The state should buy land and lease it to young farmers.

The Left wants to secure higher producer prices for farms and strengthen regional supply chains. Public institutions should be able to give preference to regional and sustainable food, and the market power of the big supermarket chains is to be curbed.

The Left wants farmers to get fair prices. Daycare centers, schools and hospitals should be able to buy food from the region. Big supermarket chains should no longer push prices down so hard.

The Left wants to move livestock farming toward humane and regional structures. It wants to fund barn conversions, end very large slaughterhouses and export-oriented meat production, and use the Bundesrat to push for caps on herd sizes.

The Left wants animals to be kept better. Farmers should get money for better barns. Giant slaughterhouses should end. There should be a maximum number of animals per farm.

The Left wants to raise the share of organically farmed land from around 10 to at least 30 percent. In addition, farming is to be adapted to climate change, land consumption reduced and biodiversity promoted.

The Left wants much more organic farming. Its share should rise from 10 to 30 percent. Soil should stay fertile and be built over less. Wild bees should get more places to live. A fund should help farmers after climate damage.

The Left wants to simplify application procedures for farms and commit funding for several years at a time. At the same time, subsidies are to be reliably tied to animal welfare, environmental, climate and social standards.

The Left wants less paperwork for farmers. Applications should be simple and digital. Funding should be promised for several years. The money should be tied to rules for animals, the environment and workers.

The SPD wants to give agriculture planning certainty and simplify permit and record-keeping duties without lowering standards. The state is also to get its own guiding vision for farm policy.

Farmers should have less paperwork. The rules that protect nature and animals stay the same. Farmers should only have to enter data once. The state should make a shared plan together with farmers.

The SPD wants young farmers and people starting farms to get easier access to land, as many farm handovers are coming up. To that end, the state land company (Landgesellschaft) is to be strengthened. Federally owned BVVG land is to come under state responsibility in the long term.

Many farms will soon get new owners. Young farmers should get land more easily. A state-owned company should provide land for this. Land owned by the federal government should later be managed by the state.

The SPD wants to keep EU farm funding at its current level and pay farms for services to the environment, climate and animal welfare in a way that adds to their income. Crop farming is to be adapted to climate change.

Farmers get money from the EU. The SPD wants the amount to stay the same. Farmers who protect nature, climate and animals should earn money for it. Crop growing should cope better with heat and drought.

The SPD wants to fund the conversion of livestock farming, combining animal welfare with economic prospects for farms. Regional slaughtering and marketing are to receive funding again so that animal transports become shorter.

Farm animals should live better. Farmers should get money for better barns. There should be more slaughterhouses nearby again. Then animals do not have to travel so far. Dairy farmers should get fixed contracts.

The SPD wants to convert the state's forests into permanent forests that can withstand climate change. The state forestry enterprise is to get more staff and expertise. Hunting law and wildfire protection are to be adapted accordingly.

The SPD wants to change the forests. The forests should cope better with heat and drought. The state forestry service should get more staff. Protection against forest fires should also improve.

The SPD wants to preserve the state's agricultural schools and university institutions and fund them adequately. Vocational training is to be strengthened and its content updated. The reasoning given is that only well-trained farmers can handle future challenges.

The SPD wants to strengthen training for farming. Schools and universities for farming should get enough money. There should be more teachers. Every farm should have fast internet.