German Farmers' Association is willing to compromise on agricultural diesel. Some farmers' associations reject this as a "subtle backpedaling" Federal Agriculture Minister Cem Özdemir suggested relieving the burden on agricultural businesses elsewhere.

Protests are becoming more radical, DBV General Secretary Bernhard Krüsken said in a newspaper interview. In Brandenburg last week, several people were injured after driving their cars into piles of dung and other obstacles that protesters had erected on a highway.