After long farmers' protests: “Day of listening” for politics. Many of the farmers' problems can only be solved by the federal government or the EU, others are more in the details.

Given the extent of the various problems on the farms, this is unlikely to be an easy task. “At some point the anger has to go away. Neither is fear a good guide, nor is anger,” says Baden-Württemberg Prime Minister Winfried Kretschmann.