What do the parties in Schleswig-Holstein say on agriculture?

The CDU wants to continue the Zukunftsdialog Landwirtschaft (dialogue on the future of farming) and turn its results into concrete measures. The aim is an agriculture shaped by family farms, with crop and livestock farming, that can plan for the long term.

The CDU wants to keep talking with farmers about the future. The talks should lead to real measures. Family farms should stay. Farmers should be able to plan far ahead.

The CDU wants to relaunch the former agricultural marketing body CMA and push for a national food agency that promotes regional products at home and abroad. In addition, every schoolchild in the state is to visit a farm once.

The CDU wants more advertising for local food. A new agency should do this. People should value farmers' work more. Every schoolchild should visit a farm once.

The CDU wants to achieve animal welfare, climate protection, biodiversity and water protection in farming through funding programs rather than legal requirements. It justifies this with the competitiveness of farms. Federal and EU standards are not to be tightened at the state level.

The CDU does not want to burden farmers with new rules. There should be funding for protecting nature and animals. The state should not make federal and EU rules stricter. This should help farms stay competitive.

The CDU wants to found a competence center that pools scientific knowledge on climate-efficient agriculture and helps farms cut their greenhouse gas emissions. It also promotes digital methods in field and barn and backs a carbon border adjustment for imports.

The CDU wants to found a new center for farming and climate. Experts will work together there. They will help farmers emit fewer harmful gases. Digital technology should help too.

The CDU wants farms to be able to earn money through environmental and climate protection. It welcomes the eco-schemes in EU agricultural policy and supports industry-backed payment systems. The required greening of agriculture is to become easier for farms to carry out.

Farmers should be able to earn money by protecting nature. The CDU likes the EU's new eco-schemes. These are payments for voluntary environmental work. Businesses should also pay farmers for this.

The CDU wants to make pasture-based livestock farming more attractive by simplifying rules and launching funding programs. Farmers are to receive money for wolf-proof fences. Because of crop damage from wild geese, the party considers goose management including hunting necessary.

Keeping animals on pasture should get easier. The CDU wants to cut rules and provide money. Farmers should get help with fences against wolves. Wild geese eat fields bare. So hunting geese should be allowed.

The CDU wants to preserve commercial fishing in Schleswig-Holstein despite sharply reduced EU catch quotas. Decommissioning payments and EU funds are to be used so that the remaining businesses survive. Shrimp fishing is not to face further no-take zones in the Wadden Sea.

The CDU wants fishing to continue in the state. The EU allows far less cod and herring fishing. So fishers should get help. There should be no new closed zones for shrimp fishers in the Wadden Sea.

The CDU wants to expand aquaculture facilities and support their further development because they could increasingly meet demand for fish. Regulatory hurdles for environmentally friendly recirculating systems are to be lowered. The environment must not be significantly harmed in the process.

The CDU wants more fish farming in facilities. These are called aquaculture. They should partly replace fishing at sea. There should be fewer rules for eco-friendly facilities.

The CDU wants to implement the recommendations of the Borchert Commission on restructuring livestock farming and supports an animal welfare levy. Building and converting barns for better animal welfare is to become legally easier and continue to be subsidized. Processed meat is to be exported instead of live animals.

The CDU wants animals in barns to be better off. It thinks an animal welfare levy is right. That is a surcharge meant to pay for better barns. New and rebuilt barns should be easier to approve. Live animals should no longer be shipped abroad.

The CDU wants to introduce the Ernährungsführerschein (a school nutrition certificate course) in all schools and continue awareness projects in daycare centers and schools. Regional products are to be marketed better, and public institutions are to cook more regionally and seasonally.

Children should learn at school how to eat healthily. For this, there should be a nutrition course everywhere. The CDU also wants to support food from the region. Daycare centers and care homes should offer more regional food.

The FDP wants to continue the "Future of Agriculture" dialogue and set up an Enquete-Kommission (parliamentary inquiry commission) on agriculture in the state parliament. The results of the dialogue are to guide farm policy, and practitioners are to check draft regulations for workability in advance.

The FDP wants to keep talking with farmers. The state parliament should set up a special commission on farming. It is a working group of lawmakers and experts. Farmers should check new rules before they start. They should say whether the rules work in daily life.

The FDP wants to waive fees for farm building applications that improve sustainability and animal welfare and tie them to fixed processing deadlines. Once the deadline passes, the application is to count as approved. The platform argues that long and costly permit procedures hold back investment.

Farmers often want to build better barns for their animals. The applications take a long time and cost a lot. The FDP wants these applications to be free. The office should answer within a fixed time. If it does not answer in time, the building counts as allowed.

The FDP wants to safeguard pasture-based livestock farming, designate wolf-free regions and introduce regionally differentiated population management. Geese and cormorants are also to be managed effectively to prevent damage to farming. A premium for grazing animals is planned as well.

Many farmers keep animals out on pasture. The FDP wants to protect this. Some regions should have no wolves. Hunters should be allowed to shoot more geese, because geese eat the crops. Farmers with grazing animals should get a payment.

The FDP wants to reduce red tape and record-keeping duties in agriculture and push for a moratorium on new requirements. Federal or state rules that are stricter than EU single-market rules are to be dropped so farms compete on equal terms. Farms are to be given time to adapt to new environmental and animal-welfare demands.

Farmers have to follow many rules and write a lot down. The FDP wants to reduce this. For a while, no new requirements should be added. German rules should not be stricter than EU rules. That way farmers get the same chances as farmers in other countries.

The FDP wants to scrap the right of first refusal for nature conservation, which lets public bodies step in first when certain land is sold. Instead it relies on cooperative contract-based conservation programs and a dialogue on land swaps between farmers and the Stiftung Naturschutz (state nature conservation foundation).

Today the state may buy some land first to protect nature. This is called a right of first refusal. The FDP wants to end this right. Farmers should instead sign voluntary contracts to protect nature. Farmers and the nature foundation should talk about swapping land.

The FDP wants more support for research and new technology in agriculture, including green genetic engineering, climate-friendly crop protection and lower-emission livestock housing. Young farmers, farm successors and start-ups in the farm sector are also to get more help.

The FDP wants more research for farming. This includes green genetic engineering. That means scientists change the genes of plants. Barns with fewer emissions should be studied too. Young farmers and new farm businesses should get more help and advice.

The FDP wants to support commercial fishing with a one-time investment fund and financial compensation for lost fishing grounds. For anglers, the platform provides for more personal responsibility and fewer restrictions. In the party's view, Schleswig-Holstein should lead the way in fishing that is both sustainable and economically viable.

The FDP wants to help fishers. They should get money for newer boats and gear. If fishing areas are lost, fishers should be paid for it. Anglers should be able to decide more for themselves. Fishing at night should stay allowed.

The Greens want to keep fishing in the North Sea and Baltic Sea while protecting sensitive marine areas. This includes a rapid exit from bottom trawling, stricter rules for gillnets, and subsidies geared toward ecological use of the sea.

Fishing is part of Schleswig-Holstein. The Greens want to make it better for the environment. Nets that are dragged over the sea floor should soon be banned. Fishers should get help with the change. Nobody should target endangered fish.

The Greens want an agricultural transition toward climate-neutral farming that gives farms a lasting future. Public farm funding is to be based on the ecological and social services farms provide. Rules for markets are meant to make fair producer prices possible.

The Greens want to change farming. It should not harm the climate or nature. Farms should get public money for what they do for nature and society. Farmers should get fair prices.

The Greens want to raise the share of organically farmed land in the state from 7 percent today to at least 30 percent. State subsidies are to be paid out primarily on ecological criteria. Training and research are also to focus more on organic farming.

The Greens want much more organic farming. Today 7 percent of the land is organic. It should become at least 30 percent. There should be more money and more advice for this.

The Greens reject genetic engineering in farming and forestry, including the so-called new techniques. These are to remain subject to risk assessment and approval under genetic engineering law. The party sees GMO-free production as a competitive advantage.

The Greens say no to genetic engineering in fields and in food. This also applies to new methods. The state should check these methods strictly. The party wants to protect nature and health.

The Greens want more food to be processed and sold within the region. This is meant to secure an economic future for farming. At the same time, education starting in daycare is to teach where food comes from.

The Greens want more food from the region. Small dairies and slaughterhouses should get permits more easily. Children should learn where food comes from. They should also learn to cook fresh meals.

The Greens want to prevent farmland from becoming concentrated among investors and financial firms. To that end, the state's law on land transactions is to be adjusted. Young farmers are to find it easier to take over farms.

The Greens want farmland to belong to many people. Big finance firms should not buy more and more land. The party wants to change a law for this. Young people should be able to take over a farm more easily.

The Greens want to cut pesticide use in half by 2030 as a first step and better protect waters from fertilizer. At the federal level they advocate a pesticide levy. According to the platform, those who cause environmental damage should pay for it themselves.

The Greens want less poison on the fields. By 2030 there should be only half as much. Near rivers and lakes there should be no fertilizer and no poison. Makers and users should pay for damage themselves.

The Greens want meals in daycare centers, schools, hospitals and canteens to be healthier and more sustainable, with a steadily rising share of organic food. A quality label would show how many regional and organic products are used. At the federal level they push for binding food labeling rules.

The Greens want better food in daycare centers, schools and hospitals. There should be more organic food there. A label should show how much food comes from the region. Food packages should clearly say where the food comes from and what is in it.

The Greens want farms to keep fewer animals per unit of land. They name a target of no more than two livestock units per hectare. The reasons given are climate protection, water protection and animal welfare.

The Greens want fewer animals on each piece of land. One hectare should have at most two livestock units. One livestock unit is about one grown cow. This should help the climate, the water and the animals.

The Greens want to move livestock farming to the higher husbandry tiers 3 and 4 over the long term, following the recommendations of the Borchert Commission. A dedicated federal funding tool, such as an animal welfare levy, is to pay for this. Pasture farming and the switch to organic livestock farming would be supported.

The Greens want farm animals to live better. Animals should get more space and time outdoors. Money for this should come from an animal welfare levy, for example. That is an extra charge on animal products. Farmers should find it easier to switch to organic farming.

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 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.

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 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 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 SSW wants as little fertilizer as possible to reach groundwater and surface water. To that end it calls for a modernized fertilizer ordinance and rules for cutting nutrient surpluses.

The SSW wants to protect water better. Less fertilizer should get into rivers, lakes and groundwater. There should be new rules for that. The equipment needed should be affordable for farmers.

The SSW wants to pay farmers for nature and environmental protection measures and to strengthen contract-based conservation. Grassland, lowlands and peatlands are to function better as carbon stores, and biodiversity is to be given more weight.

Farmers should get money when they protect nature. Meadows and peatlands should be better protected. They store CO2 and so help the climate. Insects should get more protection too.

The SSW opposes the use of glyphosate in both farming and private gardens. It also wants fewer antibiotics, hormones and drugs used in livestock farming in order to prevent resistance.

Glyphosate is a weed killer. The SSW wants nobody to use it anymore. Farm animals should get fewer antibiotics. Antibiotics are drugs against bacteria. They should keep working for people.

The SSW calls for a reform of EU agricultural payments that puts social criteria as well as environmental, climate and animal protection at the center. The goal is small-scale, sustainable farming that farms can make a living from.

The EU gives money to farmers. The SSW wants to change these rules. The money should be tied more to protecting the environment, animals and social rules. Farmers should be able to live from their work.

The SSW wants farm products to be processed and marketed more within the region and wants to reduce the transport of food and live animals. High-quality food is to be affordable for everyone, and minimum standards are to apply in meat production.

Food should be processed and sold more in the region. Live animals should not be moved so far. Good food should be affordable for people with little money too. Meat plants should have fair pay and working conditions.

The SSW wants to secure small-scale fishing in Schleswig-Holstein as a traditional trade while protecting fish stocks. Catch quotas are to be science-based and better monitored; the party rejects industrial overfishing.

The SSW wants to keep the small fishing businesses in the state. At the same time, enough fish should stay in the sea. Catch limits should be based on research. Heavy trawl nets should not be used in sensitive areas.