SPACE 2023: what happened
SPACE 2023 opened at the Parc-Expo de Rennes in Bruz on 12–14 September, gathering the animal production sector around feeding, housing and herd management.
- Dates
- 12–14 September 2023
- Where
- Parc-Expo de Rennes, Rennes / Bruz
- 🇫🇷 France
What happened at SPACE 2023
In September 2023 the livestock trade returned to Brittany. SPACE ran from 12 to 14 September at the Parc-Expo de Rennes, on the Bruz side of the city, under its own organising team. The trade exhibition is a specialist meeting for animal production. Its halls cover what a livestock business deals with every day: feed, buildings, equipment, animal health and the tools used to run a herd or flock.
The thread through the 2023 halls was how farm decisions depend on one another. A feeding system, a barn layout and a herd-monitoring tool were easier to judge together than one at a time. Automated equipment was much in evidence. Even so, it still needs someone to supervise it, keep it maintained and make sense of the numbers it produces.
Dairy and beef producers shared the aisles with pig and poultry farmers, feed mills, vets, advisers and equipment integrators. That mix made differences between species easy to spot. Hygiene routines, work cycles and the data a farmer needs vary between a milking herd, a farrowing unit and a laying flock. Suppliers could also hear what dealers and farmers expect once a system is running.
What farmers could take from Rennes in 2023 was a clearer view of how housing, feeding and herd management fit together on their own holding. Animal welfare, workload and running costs were the useful yardsticks. Extra sensors earn their place only when they produce a timely prompt someone can act on. Suppliers, meanwhile, could see where their responsibility ends and a partner's begins.
Highlights
- Three days at the Parc-Expo de Rennes, 12–14 September 2023
- Housing, feeding and herd management seen as one workflow
- Upkeep, cleaning and alarm handling central to automation talks