DLG-Feldtage 2024: field days at Gut Brockhof
DLG-Feldtage 2024 ran 11–13 June at Gut Brockhof near Erwitte and Lippstadt, Germany, with 370 exhibitors and about 17,000 trade visitors.
11–13 June 2024, Gut Brockhof, Erwitte / Lippstadt, Germany
DLG-Feldtage 2024 took place on 11–13 June at Gut Brockhof near Erwitte and Lippstadt. It had 370 exhibitors and a FarmRobotix platform on automation and AI.
Trade visitors: about 17,000
Exhibitors: 370
What happened at DLG-Feldtage 2024
DLG staged its field days on 11–13 June 2024 at Gut Brockhof, a working farm near Erwitte and Lippstadt in Germany. According to DLG, 370 exhibitors from 18 countries took part and about 17,000 trade visitors came. Holding the event on a real farm shaped the character of this edition. Crop production and agricultural engineering were presented together, out in the plots rather than in exhibition halls.
A highlight of 2024 was FarmRobotix, a platform devoted to automation, robotics and artificial intelligence. Elsewhere on the site, varieties, soil and cultivation methods could be discussed beside the growing plants. That setting prompted practical questions. Was a strong stand down to sowing date, plant population, moisture, nutrition or tillage? Answers depended on the field history and on how results were measured. That made conversations with exhibitors more specific and more useful.
Crop growers, advisers, seed businesses, implement makers and precision-farming developers were the core audience. Farmers looked for technologies that cut the number of passes or improve the timing of operations. Robotics teams paid attention to operating conditions: row recognition, safety, supervision and coping with the unexpected. A prototype on show, a supported commercial system and a contractor service were different propositions. Each implied a different purchase and a different way of running the farm.
The main value of the field days lay in turning demonstrations into questions worth testing at home. A visible result on one June day could not replace several seasons of data or a comparison on similar soils. Many visitors left with the outline of their own trial. It set out a control treatment and the measurements to record. It also counted the operator time, consumables and training a new method requires. Performance in the target crop and local conditions remained the real test.
Highlights
- 370 exhibitors from 18 countries and about 17,000 trade visitors
- Held on the working farm Gut Brockhof near Erwitte and Lippstadt
- FarmRobotix platform on automation, robotics and AI
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