Poland’s Minister of Agriculture, Czeslaw Siekierski, attended annual trade fair. A meeting place for some 18,000 livestock professionals, the event once again held in Lodz, Poland 21-23 February 2025; Technical program with in-depth topics for livestock professionals
(DLG). This year's edition of FERMA, an annual exhibition held in alternating locations in Poland, attracted some 200 exhibitors who presented a broad range of technical solutions for livestock production, from breeding and genetics to feeds, feeding systems, storage and foragers as well as veterinary medicine, milking robots, animal housing and biogas displays. 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.
Technical program with livestock and biogas topics relevant to Poland
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.
Organized by the Poland’s National Chamber of Poultry and Feed Producers, the poultry forum titled “Polish poultry farming in an unstable environment” presented opportunities and threats, risk management, operating strategies and key decision-making variables.
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 Farmers 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.
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With more than 31,000 members, DLG is a politically independent and non-profit organisation. DLG draws on an international network of some 3,000 food and agricultural experts. DLG operates with subsidiaries in 10 countries and also organizes over 30 regional agricultural and livestock exhibitions worldwide. DLG’s leading international exhibitions, EuroTier for livestock farming and Agritechnica for agricultural machinery, which are held every two years in Hanover, Germany, provide international impetus for the local trade fairs. Headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany, DLG conducts practical trials and tests to keep its members informed of the latest developments. DLG’s sites include DLG's International Crop Production Centre, a 600-hectare test site in Bernburg-Strenzfeld, Germany and the DLG Test Centre, Europe's largest agricultural machinery test centre for Technology and Farm Inputs, located in Gross-Umstadt, Germany. DLG bridges the gap between theory and practice, as evidenced by more than 40 working groups of farmers, academics, agricultural equipment companies and organisations that continually compare advances in knowledge in specific areas such as irrigation and precision farming.
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