Explain why many farmers were dissatisfied with Nazi policies towards agriculture

Explain why many farmers were dissatisfied with Nazi policies towards agriculture. (12 marks)
There were multiple reasons why the farmers in Nazi Germany were dissatisfied by the Nazi policies towards agriculture. This was based upon the fact that the farmers wages had dramatically dropped behind those of the industrial workers. Even though the farmer’s wages had actually increased to 41% between 1933 and 1938, their wages were still lower compared to those of the industrial workers. By 1939 there were severe shortages in German agriculture and the wages of the workers was increasing very slowly due to this. Moreover the profits of industry increased more than the famers’ actual income. Furthermore the living conditions, because of the low wages of the famers, were poor, they received no help from the Nazis to remedy this.
Moreover, the Reich food estate was created to try and cut out the middle man from the agriculture business. Richard Darre made the Reich food estate incredibly bureaucratic; by 1939 it employed 20,000 full time officials and 113,000 unpaid officials. A strong undercurrent of peasant discontent began to appear. This was mainly due to the fact that the Reich food estate only applied to 20% of total farms and then held back expansion and modernisation in the farming industry. This then reduced the employment opportunities within the farming industries which didn’t help with the wages for farmers as they were not able to grow or expand to create a more expansive set of customers.
Furthermore was that the government pay off for farm loans really only went to the wealthier farms in German agriculture. The Nazis spent a total of 650,000,000 RM in the years of 1933-1936; this however only applied to the larger and wealthier farms. The smaller less ‘well off’ farms did not benefit from this pay out. This then meant that the farms that did not get the pay off were struggling to make ends meet in their business. Creating a sense of unease for the peasant farmers and a sense of hatred towards the Nazi ideals. The fact that the smaller farms had not had this pay out meant that they were losing hope in the Nazi power. They could not increase their wages through expansion as they were being held back by the Reich food estate and they had all these unpaid debts.
To conclude the Nazis policies towards farmers was very mixed and were seemingly put in place without much thought of the long term outcomes. It could be argued that through a combination of focusing heavily on heavy industry for the upcoming war, and the large scale implementation of bureaucracy, the Nazis pushed the farmers to the side, especially the small scale farmers, the farmers saw this and were not happy with the promises that never happened for them.