SPACE 2022: what happened
SPACE 2022 drew 90,108 visitors over 13–15 September, filling the Parc-Expo de Rennes with three days of livestock, feed and animal-health business.
- Dates
- 13–15 September 2022
- Where
- Parc-Expo de Rennes, Rennes / Bruz
- 🇫🇷 France
- Visitors
- 90,108
What happened at SPACE 2022
Brittany welcomed the livestock sector back in mid-September 2022. SPACE took over the Bruz exhibition grounds, the Parc-Expo de Rennes, from 13 to 15 September, with its own team in charge. The organiser counted 90,108 visitors over the three days. Rather than courting the general public, the show is built for people who make a living from animals, and the 2022 halls ranged from nutrition and animal health to farm buildings, energy and equipment.
The 2022 programme treated a livestock farm as a set of linked jobs. Rations, barn design, health care, labour planning and farm data were presented next to each other, which is how they meet on a real holding. A new piece of kit made sense only when its effect on the daily care of a herd or flock was clear. Automation drew plenty of interest, yet visitors kept asking who would supervise it, service it and read its output correctly.
Dairy and beef producers mixed with pig and poultry farmers, advisers, veterinarians and the firms selling equipment and inputs to them. For feed mills, animal-health companies and equipment integrators, Rennes offered a chance to meet several species groups in one place. The breadth also exposed limits. A technology that suits one species or farm size may not transfer to another, because work cycles, hygiene rules and data needs differ. Suppliers could also hear what distributors and farmers expect long after commissioning.
For most visitors, the value of SPACE 2022 lay in judging technology by its effect on everyday work. Welfare, workload, upkeep costs and better decision-making were the measures that counted. A barn crammed with sensors is not automatically better managed: information has to arrive on time, be easy to read and point to an action. Seen this way, the show became a hands-on way to compare production approaches, and many left with a clearer idea of who answers for each step of their herd routine.
Highlights
- 90,108 visitors at the Parc-Expo de Rennes, 13–15 September
- Nutrition, health, buildings, energy and equipment in one specialist show
- Automation weighed on supervision, servicing and usable data