The global trend of speculatively acquiring farmland has long since reached Germany. Corporations, professional investors, and wealthy private investors buy land in the hope of big profits. Since the financial crisis, land is regarded as a crisis-proof investment. Its’ investors are banking on rising prices. The growing demand for food and the promotion of biogas plants also tempts investors. In addition, gigantic factory farms are being built, for our increased meat consumption is also calling yield hunters into the game.