SPACE 2024 Rennes: visitors, exhibitors and themes
SPACE 2024 in Rennes, 17–19 September: 101,757 visitors and 1,210 exhibitors explored housing, feeding and herd-management technology.
17–19 September 2024, Parc-Expo de Rennes, Rennes / Bruz, France
SPACE 2024 filled the Parc-Expo de Rennes on 17–19 September, with 101,757 visitors and 1,210 exhibitors focused on animal production.
Visitors: 101,757
Exhibitors: 1,210
What happened at SPACE 2024
The 2024 edition of SPACE was held on 17–19 September at the Parc-Expo de Rennes, in Bruz, France. According to the organiser, 101,757 visitors came over the three days and 1,210 exhibitors took stands. The fair concentrates on animal production and everything that supports it, from feed and housing to equipment and advice. A conference programme ran alongside the exhibition halls, giving the event a knowledge-sharing side as well as a commercial one.
Integration was the thread running through the 2024 halls. Feeding systems, barn design, herd health and labour planning appeared as linked decisions rather than separate purchases. A new feed mixer or milking unit only pays off if it fits the daily routine of the people looking after the animals. Automation drew strong interest. The practical questions, though, were about keeping it running: cleaning routines, service visits and the alerts a farmer must act on.
Cattle, pig and poultry producers walked the aisles together with advisers, vets, feed mills and equipment suppliers. Having so many species on one site made it easy to see where requirements part ways. A broiler house, a sow unit and a dairy barn each follow their own hygiene rules, work rhythms and data needs. Equipment firms, for their part, could learn from dealers what customers expect in the months and years after an installation goes live.
The lasting lesson from Rennes in 2024 was that livestock technology earns its place through better decisions, not extra screens. The systems worth a closer look were those that turned readings into clear, timely prompts for the person in the barn. Visitors measured offers against animal welfare, workload and running costs. Many went home with a sharper picture of how housing, feeding and herd management fit together on their own farm. They also knew better who answers for each link.
Highlights
- 101,757 visitors and 1,210 exhibitors over three September days
- Feeding, housing and herd management treated as linked decisions
- Cattle, pig and poultry needs compared side by side on one site
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