Ag in Motion 2022: what happened
Ag in Motion 2022 was back in the field at Langham, Saskatchewan on 19–21 July for the first time since 2019, with 543 exhibitors.
- Dates
- 19–21 July 2022
- Where
- Discovery Farm Langham, Langham, Saskatchewan
- 🇨🇦 Canada
- Exhibitors
- 543
What happened at Ag in Motion 2022
Discovery Farm Langham in Saskatchewan hosted Ag in Motion from 19 to 21 July 2022. Organised by Glacier FarmMedia, the show was back on its field site for the first time since 2019. According to the organiser, 543 exhibitors took part. Across three days the programme covered machinery, crop plots and livestock, giving visitors a broad picture of farming on the Canadian Prairies.
Ag in Motion ties equipment to agronomy. Choosing a drill settles nothing about when to sow, how to prepare the seedbed, what to do with straw or how much soil moisture remains. The plots let visitors see those factors side by side. In July, crops could be compared by eye. Yet a plot seen in mid-season says little without knowing how it was managed earlier and what it finally yielded.
The show is built for grain, oilseed and livestock producers, plus the advisers, input suppliers and service firms that work with them over long distances. Suppliers from abroad got a sense of what buyers in western Canada demand. A wide drill moving fast looks productive. Yet refilling, road travel between scattered fields, breakdowns and servicing all cut its real output.
The idea that travels best from Langham is a way of questioning any new technology. What does it do to the length of a working day? Does it hold up when soil and weather change? How skilled must the operator be? Saskatchewan farms differ from European ones in size, climate and structure. Even so, those questions apply anywhere and beat counting machines on display.
Highlights
- 543 exhibitors at Discovery Farm Langham
- First field edition since 2019
- Machinery, crop plots and livestock on one site