World Ag Expo 2025: what happened
The 58th World Ag Expo ran on 11–13 February 2025 in Tulare, California, with 1,274 exhibitors and more than 100,000 attendees from 80 countries.
- Dates
- 11–13 February 2025
- Where
- International Agri-Center, Tulare, California
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Visitors
- > 100,000
- Exhibitors
- 1,274
What happened at World Ag Expo 2025
World Ag Expo took place on 11–13 February 2025 at the International Agri-Center in Tulare, California, which also organises the show. According to the organiser, the 58th edition drew 1,274 exhibitors and more than 100,000 attendees from 80 countries. The show covered agricultural equipment, infrastructure and services for the intensive farming of the western United States. There, crop production, water, energy, labour and logistics have to be managed as one connected operation rather than as separate jobs.
Tulare is a different kind of show from fairs built around large grain machinery. In specialist crops and dairy production, supporting equipment, management tools and farm infrastructure can matter just as much as tractors. A pump, a filter, a sensor or an animal-handling installation may solve a more urgent problem than a new tractor would. The breadth of the 2025 exhibition let visitors look at several parts of their production process at the same time.
The show served growers, farm managers, contractors, dealers and suppliers working with specialist crops and livestock. For businesses from outside the United States, it was a good place to learn what American customers expect from reliability, servicing and equipment integration. Those lessons depend on farm scale, infrastructure and labour availability. A system that suits California may need a different configuration or support model in Europe. Knowing those conditions is more useful than assuming a successful product travels unchanged.
World Ag Expo earns its place through a broad view of everyday farm operations. Popularity on the show floor and results on the farm are different measures. Claims about saving water, energy or labour only make sense against a clear baseline. The useful exercise for visitors was to sort solutions by what they demand: training, changes in work organisation or extra infrastructure. Matching each one to the right farm type was the most practical result of a visit.
Highlights
- 1,274 exhibitors and more than 100,000 attendees from 80 countries
- Equipment, water and energy infrastructure for intensive Western US farming
- Strong focus on specialist crops, orchards and dairy production