EuroTier 2024: what happened
EuroTier 2024 met in Hanover on 12–15 November. Together with EnergyDecentral and Inhouse Farming, it drew about 120,000 visitors and 2,193 exhibitors.
- Dates
- 12–15 November 2024
- Where
- Hannover Messe, Hanover
- 🇩🇪 Germany
- Visitors
- ≈ 120,000
- Exhibitors
- 2,193
What happened at EuroTier 2024
EuroTier took place on 12–15 November 2024 at the Hanover exhibition grounds, organised by DLG. It ran together with EnergyDecentral and Inhouse Farming, and according to DLG the three shows jointly attracted about 120,000 visitors and 2,193 exhibitors. EuroTier itself is the specialist fair for animal-production technology, covering housing, feeding and automation. It is a separate brand from the field-machinery exhibition held in the same city.
The 2024 halls presented livestock farming as one connected system. Feeding lines, ventilation and herd monitoring sat alongside the buildings, stocking plans and staff that make them work. Upgrading a single device rarely helps if the real bottleneck lies elsewhere. The more useful discussions began with the farm’s actual task. That might be cutting routine handling, reducing errors or making supervision easier. Features and supplier duties could then be compared against that goal, instead of each new function being treated as a reason to invest.
Livestock farms, integrators, feed manufacturers, housing-equipment firms, vets and advisers made up the core audience. Farmers needed to know whether an installation would suit their existing barns and the skills of their staff. Data access, servicing, operation during a breakdown and responsibility for commissioning were the questions that mattered. So was the fine print: a supposedly complete system can still need separate building work, IT support or training, which makes quotations harder to compare.
EuroTier 2024 gave a broad overview of housing and production technology, though no exhibition can design a project for a specific farm. The most practical result was a process map showing measurement points, staffing needs and maintenance duties. Savings figures meant little without a clear starting baseline. Visitors planning investment could leave with the outline of a pilot, with responsibilities and acceptance criteria agreed before any wider rollout.
Highlights
- About 120,000 visitors across EuroTier, EnergyDecentral and Inhouse Farming
- 2,193 exhibitors across the three combined shows
- Housing, feeding and automation shown as one production system