New Holland had its most recent methane-powered prototype tractor on display this year.
Photo: Scott Garvey
The familiar brands, like John Deere, always have massive exhibits, which are extremely busy with visitors all day.
Photo: Scott Garvey
John Deere showed its emerging smart technologies developed in conjunction with recently-acquired brands, like this guided tillage implement that uses some Monosem components.
Photo: Scott Garvey
The most interesting and eye-catching exhibits tend to attract very large crowds, sometimes making getting past them in the aisle a bit of a chore.
Photo: Scott Garvey
Claas, which currently only markets a limited line of products in North America, showed off its soon-to-be-released half track tractor.
Photo: DLG
North American visitors will find a lot of unfamiliar equipment, like this self-propelled slurry injector.
Photo: DLG
There were numerous seminars and presentations in the various display halls going on all week. Most were available in English.
Photo: DLG
The main entrance funnelled 450,000 visitors through the gates and enhanced security checks this year.
Photo: DLG
There were several autonomous machines on display this year, like this one designed to weed vegetable fields.
Photo: Scott Garvey
Several weeks ago I noticed a post on Twitter from someone who described one western Canadian farm show as being “like Agritechnica, only smaller.” I assume that description was somewhat tongue-in-cheek. The truth is, there really isn’t any other farm equipment show remotely like Agritechnica. This show, held in Hanover Germany every two years, stands apart from every other equipment event in nearly every way possible.
First, consider the scale of it. Almost the entire event is staged indoors, inside roughly 30 massive buildings that together enclose over 90 acres of floor space. And all 15+ kilometres of aisles are carpeted! Occupying all of that show area this year were 2,803 exhibitors from 53 countries. A few of them were selling equipment-related swag, but all were directly ag equipment related. There were no foot massagers or kitchenware being hocked at this event.
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An unbelievable 450,000 visitors came to the 2017 show from 138 countries.
The show also offered an ongoing series of seminars and events in everything from “green technologies” to a conference of engineers. The engineering conference alone attracted over 1,000 researchers, scientists and engineers from all around the world according to the organizers.
The show gave every attendee a look at what the machinery dealers are selling now, what they’re about to start selling and what they may be selling in the more distant future. So you see, no other farm equipment show even comes close to that.
But the best way to demonstrate what Agritechnica is about is to show it in pictures, so here are some of the sights that stood out to us at this year’s event.
