Fieragricola 2022 Verona: visitors, exhibitors, themes
Fieragricola 2022 ran 2–5 March in Verona, drawing 68,000 trade visitors and more than 520 exhibitors across machinery, livestock and energy.
2–5 March 2022, Veronafiere, Verona, Italy
The 115th Fieragricola ran from 2 to 5 March 2022 at Veronafiere in Verona, bringing machinery, livestock and energy together for 68,000 trade visitors.
Trade visitors: 68,000
Exhibitors: more than 520
What happened at Fieragricola 2022
The 115th Fieragricola opened at Veronafiere in Verona on 2 March 2022 and ran until 5 March. Veronafiere, which runs the exhibition centre, also organised the show. According to the organiser, it attracted 68,000 trade visitors and more than 520 exhibitors. Breadth was its defining feature. Machinery, livestock and energy shared the same grounds, so a single visit could take in several branches of a farm business at once, from the field and the barn to the power supply.
Fieragricola 2022 was less about single machines than about how the pieces of a farm fit together. On a mixed holding, one new purchase has knock-on effects: it changes how much energy the farm uses, how operators spend their hours and how sheds and barns are used. Orchard and vineyard growers arrived with narrower concerns, chiefly the size of a machine and how easily it manoeuvres in tight plantings. Whether new kit would work with installations already on the farm was a recurring topic on many stands.
Three groups had most to gain. Mixed farms wanted equipment that cooperates with what they already own. Orchard and vineyard businesses looked for machines sized for their plantings and their seasonal peaks. Integrators, the firms that connect equipment from different makers, came to find partners and to settle who commissions an installation, trains staff and answers breakdown calls at harvest time. A solution that pays off in an intensive orchard can add up differently on a smaller holding, so many talks turned on scale and local conditions.
A well-prepared visitor left Verona with more than brochures: a list of suppliers and a sense of where each one's responsibility stops. That matters because a combined system involves several companies, and gaps between them tend to appear during commissioning. Some set-ups clearly needed a trial on the buyer's own farm before any order was placed. The fair sat comfortably beside the specialist machinery and livestock events, offering width where those offer depth.
Highlights
- 115th edition at Veronafiere, 2–5 March 2022
- 68,000 trade visitors and more than 520 exhibitors
- Machinery, livestock and energy on one exhibition site
Agricultural events 2022
