The first day of the Inhouse Farming Show, part of the Eurotrier kicked off today in Hanover, Germany. Eurotrier is the world's largest trade fair for professional animal husbandry and livestock management, as well as agriculture solutions. Aiming to bridge the gap and lowering the threshold for open field growers to talk to indoor farming suppliers, DLG set up the first edition of the Inhouse Farming Show.
Inka Scharf and Yuliya Bondarenko of the DLG Inhouse Farming Show
With players from vertical insect farming, algae production, vertical farming suppliers and vertical farm operators, together, discussions came together in a very natural way. With players in energy, robotics, agrivoltaics, biogas, and way more, "the show is a great place to showcase how existing products or technology can be adopted in industries such as vertical farming," an attendee let us know.
Rick Schneiders and Andy Manley with Siemens
Thomas Zoellner (FarmTech Society), Tisha Livingston (80 Acres Farms), Joyce Rasquin (Grodan), and Jakob Boxhoorn (Bosman van Zaal) at the FarmTech Society booth
FarmTech Society was a proud supporter of the event, and co-organized an opening event on Monday 11 November, of which an article will follow shortly. Thomas proudly shared their first-ever education course that is launched in collaboration with the Erasmus+ program. More soon...
Melanie Hauck and Roland Grimm with PUR who supply systems for universities, horeca, and education purposes
Tomorrow, we'll dive more into the specifics of how vertical farms and open field growers can potentially collaborate and what we need to do as an industry, to better understand their needs.