Some 18,000 folks visited the three-day exhibition
6 March 2025
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This yr’s version of FERMA, an annual exhibition held in alternating areas in Poland, attracted some 200 exhibitors who offered a broad vary of technical options for livestock manufacturing, from breeding and genetics to feeds, feeding methods, storage and foragers in addition to veterinary drugs, milking robots, animal housing and biogas shows. Held in Lodz, Poland, and organised by the DLG’s (German Agricultural Society) subsidiary in Poland, the FERMA 2025 occasion – held February 21-23 – counted almost 18,000 guests from all areas of Poland, consolidating FERMAS’s place as a key venue for professionals within the livestock trade, based on a latest press launch from the DLG.
FERMA was visited by Poland’s Minister of Agriculture, Czeslaw Siekierski, who attended the “The Way forward for Polish Agriculture” occasion organized by the Chamber of Agriculture of the Lodz Province. On the exhibition’s award ceremony, which honors world premieres and improvements at FERMA, Minister Siekierski offered the awards to the winners, which included eight gold medals and 5 distinctions.
ADV Genetics’ Hyperin CluStar, Poland’s reply to mastitis, in addition to Euromilk’s EM QUBE – an modern feeding system, represented the 2 world premieres at FERMA.
The 12 international locations and areas represented among the many exhibitors at FERMA included Denmark, Finland ,France, Germany, Israel, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, South Korea, Taiwan, Ukraine and United Kingdom.
Technical program with livestock and biogas matters related to Poland
FERMA was accompanied by a technical program, which included technical conferences with sensible relevance. Specialists and practitioners from Poland and overseas, together with DLG livestock specialists, contributed with related data for livestock farmers.
A preferred presentation for pig farmers was the panel dialogue led by Dr. Tomasz Schwarz from the College of Life Sciences in Krakow, which mentioned in-depth potential threats to pig manufacturing in Poland and Europe: African Swine Fever, profitability fluctuations social notion of farmers and structural modifications in agriculture.
Moderated by Prof Jacek Dach, the College of Life Sciences in Poznan, the panel on renewable vitality sources supplied livestock farmers with relevant data: What to contemplate when planning an funding in biogas vegetation, impact of carbon footprint on Polish meals exports and digestate as fertilizer.
Organized by the Poland’s Nationwide Chamber of Poultry and Feed Producers, the poultry discussion board titled “Polish poultry farming in an unstable surroundings” offered alternatives and threats, threat administration, working methods and key decision-making variables.
On the occasion “For people, animals and the surroundings”, Martin Ziaja, a DLG affiliated dairy farmer, along with specialists addressed cow welfare, options for lowering methane emissions. With necessities for emission discount probably sooner or later, beef producers explored potential avenues. Organizers of the occasions have been the Polish Federation of Cattle Breeders and Dairy Farmers for milk producers and the Polish Affiliation of Beef Cattle Producers for beef farmers.
At FERMA, the BydłoMleczne.pl portal ran a photograph contest “Present us your heifer” providing a SAMBA disc mower to the winner: Grzegorz Kulesza from Rębiszewo Studzianki.
The FERMA commerce honest was held at EXPO and MOSiR halls in Lodz. The subsequent version of FERMA will happen in Łódź, on February 20-22, 2026.
