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Held in Lodz, Poland, and organized by the DLG’s (German Agricultural Society) subsidiary in Poland, the FERMA 2025 event – 21-23 February – counted nearly 18,000 visitors from all regions of Poland, consolidating FERMAS’s position as a key venue for professionals in the livestock industry.
FERMA was visited by Poland’s Minister of Agriculture, Czeslaw Siekierski, who attended the "The Future of Polish Agriculture" event organized by the Chamber of Agriculture of the Lodz Province. At the exhibition’s award ceremony, which honors world premieres and innovations at FERMA, Minister Siekierski presented the awards to the winners, which included eight gold medals and five distinctions.
ADV Genetics’ Hyperin CluStar, Poland’s answer to mastitis, as well as Euromilk’s EM QUBE - an innovative feeding system, represented the two world premieres at FERMA.
The 12 countries and regions represented among the exhibitors at FERMA included Denmark, Finland ,France, Germany, Israel, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, South Korea, Taiwan, Ukraine and United Kingdom.
FERMA was accompanied by a technical program, which included technical conferences with practical relevance. Experts and practitioners from Poland and abroad, including DLG livestock experts, contributed with relevant knowledge for livestock farmers.
A popular presentation for pig farmers was the panel discussion led by Dr. Tomasz Schwarz from the University of Life Sciences in Krakow, which discussed in-depth potential threats to pig production in Poland and Europe: African Swine Fever, profitability fluctuations social perception of farmers and structural changes in agriculture.
Moderated by Prof Jacek Dach, the University of Life Sciences in Poznan, the panel on renewable energy sources provided livestock farmers with applicable knowledge: What to consider when planning an investment in biogas plants, effect of carbon footprint on Polish food exports and digestate as fertilizer.
At the event “For humans, animals and the environment”, Martin Ziaja, a DLG affiliated dairy farmer, together with experts addressed cow welfare, solutions for reducing methane emissions. With requirements for emission reduction likely in the future, beef producers explored possible avenues. Organizers of the events were the Polish Federation of Cattle Breeders and Dairy Farmer for milk producers and the Polish Association of Beef Cattle Producers for beef farmers.
At FERMA, the BydłoMleczne.pl portal ran a photo contest "Show us your heifer" offering a SAMBA disc mower to the winner: Grzegorz Kulesza from Rębiszewo Studzianki.
The FERMA trade fair was held at EXPO and MOSiR halls in Lodz. The next edition of FERMA will take place in Łódź, on February 20-22, 2026.
March, 2025 - DLG
