World Ag Expo 2023: what happened
World Ag Expo took over its Tulare, California, home on 14–16 February 2023, with 108,233 visitors and 1,225 exhibitors on the International Agri-Center grounds.
- Dates
- 14–16 February 2023
- Where
- International Agri-Center, Tulare, California
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Visitors
- 108,233
- Exhibitors
- 1,225
What happened at World Ag Expo 2023
The International Agri-Center organised World Ag Expo on its own grounds in Tulare, California, from 14 to 16 February 2023. Its closing report recorded 108,233 visitors and 1,225 exhibitors across the three days. The outdoor exhibition covers equipment and services for several farming systems at once. Water, labour and logistics run through much of what is on offer, and each solution makes sense only for the job it was designed to do.
Field machinery was only one strand of the 2023 show. Specialist-crop growers and dairy producers often meet their tightest limits elsewhere: in water treatment, monitoring, livestock handling or farm management tools. Those categories had as much room on the grounds as tractors did. For a farm manager, that breadth was useful. Questions about water, energy, labour and machinery could all be raised in one visit.
Farm managers, growers, dealers and contractors formed the core audience, together with suppliers serving specialist crops and livestock. Visitors from outside the United States could learn how American buyers judge reliability, service and the way equipment fits together. Those standards grow out of local farm sizes, infrastructure and labour supply. A set-up proven in California may have to be reconfigured, or backed by another support model, before it works in Europe. Planning for that change is part of any export case.
Claims of lower water, energy or labour use only become comparable when the baseline and operating conditions are spelled out. Some products in Tulare simply plug in; others bring a training programme, a change in how the team works, or new pipework and power with them. Telling those groups apart, and pairing each with the kind of farm it suits, gave a day at the 2023 show its most useful result.
Highlights
- 108,233 visitors and 1,225 exhibitors over three days in Tulare
- Water, labour and logistics running through the equipment on offer
- Pumps, filtration, sensors and livestock handling for specialist farms