Agritechnica officially opened its doors on Sunday 10 November. For those unaware, the event is one of the world’s largest indoor agricultural machinery exhibitions, and possibly the most renowned.
The week-long show takes place at the fairgrounds in Hanover, Germany, every two years. The last show took place in November 2017.
The exhibition attracts the vast majority of the big players in the European machinery industry, and many more from further afield.
This year, it will see more than 2,750 exhibitors from 51 countries. Sixty two per cent of these exhibitors are from outside of Germany, with the largest amount of foreign companies coming from Italy (370 firms). This is followed by the Chinese, who have 163 firms at the show.
There is also a strong Irish contingent, with a total of 18 exhibitors. Show organisers are expecting more than 450,000 visitors from 130 countries, including over 110,000 international visitors.
Many Irish machinery dealers, farmers, contractors and enthusiasts, make the biennial trip over. Our plane over was full of machinery heads - it’s not that hard to pick us out.
At a first glance at the show, the trends seemed to lean towards increased automation, intelligent data management systems, and machine documentation.
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