Monday, September 8, 2025
SPACE 2025: records on the agenda
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The 39th edition of SPACE will take place from Tuesday, September 16 to Thursday, September 18 at the Rennes Exhibition Center and will be a major occasion for exceptional meetings for all stakeholders of what we like to call “the Livestock Planet.”
With more than 1,200 exhibitors and 100,000 visitors from 120 countries, over a hundred conferences, an expanded innovations platform, youth-focused events, an “Espace pour Demain” dedicated to forward-looking discussions on artificial intelligence, job-dating sessions, and Top Buyers from around the world… SPACE, building on its great success in 2024, stands out as a major global agricultural event in September 2025. Participation in this year’s exhibition has reached record levels since the post-COVID period. Since 2020, we had not seen such a high number of exhibitors; demand for space has exceeded supply, and the number of conferences, debates, and activities has also reached record levels.
SPACE’s location in the heart of the Grand Ouest, the leading livestock-farming region, is a truly unique advantage. Brittany, Normandy, and Pays de la Loire today produce 75% of France’s pig herd, 60% of poultry meat, 44% of national cattle production, and 53% of milk production. This leadership position, achieved thanks to the performance of its ecosystem, its favorable climate, and the expertise of its farmers, makes it a genuine land of opportunity for the future of livestock in all its diversity.
Artificial intelligence, which we have renamed “Agricultural Intelligence,” will be at the heart of many debates and the Espace for the Future. Through these presentations and exchanges with experts, farmers will be able to find answers and insights at SPACE on how to use artificial intelligence in their profession.
1,230 Exhibitors from 40 Countries: A Comprehensive Offering for All Sectors
The entire livestock industry will gather at SPACE 2025, with a very complete representation across all sectors and a record level of participation since COVID.
We count a total of 1,230 exhibitors, including 301 newcomers (25% of exhibitors) and 371 international participants (30% of exhibitors) from 40 countries (compared to 34 in 2024). The number of countries represented by exhibitors also marks a record.
Enthusiasm for this edition of SPACE was evident as early as the opening of stand reservations in January and continued up until recent weeks. We were unable to meet all requests for exhibition space, particularly in Halls 9 (nutrition and animal feed), 4 (hygiene, water treatment, energy), 11 (dairy equipment), and 8 (pigs).
100,000 Visitors from 120 Countries Expected
Every year, SPACE attracts thousands of farmers and all those who work with and for them on a daily basis, whether French or international. More than 120 countries thus gather in Rennes. This international dimension is truly unique and highlights the high value of the expertise showcased at SPACE.
Around thirty Top Buyers from 13 countries are expected this year thanks to the renewal, for the fourth consecutive year, of the “Export Starts in France” initiative led by Business France. These buyers were selected for their investment capacity and the scope of their projects.
At SPACE, they will be able to find suppliers for their needs in poultry slaughtering solutions, poultry and pig nutrition, artificial intelligence systems, dairy product transport, genetics, animal welfare, agricultural machinery, and more—coming from Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, Argentina, Ethiopia, Senegal, India, Greece, Kenya, Austria, Mexico, and beyond.
For all Sub-Saharan African countries, SPACE will once again be a unique meeting point and an extremely valuable development tool. Benin, Togo, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Senegal, and others will be present in delegations to find at SPACE the means to strengthen their food autonomy. This is a well-deserved recognition of the expertise and the quality of the offering that the Grand Ouest—and Brittany in particular—are able to provide thanks to the work of their farmers and businesses.
INNOV’SPACE: 30 years under the stars of innovation!
The Third Edition of the Tech’Agri Challenge by Innov’Space
The Tech’Agri Challenge by Innov’Space returns for its third edition. This competition, initiated by Bretagne Développement Innovation, INNOZH, and SPACE, brings together students from the agricultural and digital sectors to design technical solutions that address real-world challenges. The innovations developed by these students cover a variety of essential topics: animal health monitoring, improving working conditions, field monitoring, and even a new milking system.
The seven solutions created as part of this competition will be showcased at a dedicated stand in Hall 3. The teams will present their projects on Tuesday, September 16, at 2:00 p.m. in the Espace Jeunes. A professional jury will then select the winning teams of the 2025 challenge.
The goal of this space is to provide a forum for dialogue and reflection on the new perspectives brought by artificial intelligence. For farmers, the Espace pour Demain will be the place where they can obtain information in a very neutral and highly professional way about all the tools that AI offers. Counting sheep using drone imagery, exploring precision weeding, optimizing biogas production facilities, getting familiar with veterinary telemedicine… these and many other topics will be addressed in this area, which awaits you in large numbers in Hall 3.
AGREEN DEFI: The First AI Hackathon at SPACE
For the first time, SPACE will host an AI hackathon with the aim of bringing together data scientists, developers, and agricultural professionals to collaborate over two days in finding solutions to real-world challenges through AI.
Animal Presentations
Due to the exceptional sanitary context linked to outbreaks of bluetongue disease (serotypes 3 and 8), epizootic hemorrhagic disease (EHD), and lumpy skin disease, the organizers wish to reaffirm their determination to enforce the strict health framework in place at SPACE and to ensure that no risk is taken for the farmers presenting their animals.
The measures applying to animal presentations are as follows: double insect control at the farm and upon arrival at SPACE; washing and disinfecting transport trucks before loading and again upon leaving the exhibition on Friday; culicoid traps placed in the presentation hall and analyzed daily; and finally, PCR tests carried out 10 to 12 days before the event, with results available as early as September 8.
As a result, starting from that date, the organizers will be able to announce the decision regarding whether and how the animal presentations and competitions at SPACE 2025 will be held. This decision will be made with a strong sense of responsibility, based on the sanitary “snapshot” at that time. We can already confirm that, if animals are allowed at SPACE, their numbers will be reduced and adjusted to these exceptional circumstances. The ventilation systems in Hall 1, installed last year, will be switched on one week before the exhibition and remain in operation throughout the event. The airflow generated by these systems helps deter insects and lowers the temperature inside the building.
Disinfection mats will also be installed at all entrances to SPACE.
Conferences – SPACE TV
SPACE is a unique moment of exchange and information for the agricultural profession. More than a hundred conferences on this year’s agenda will address a wide range of major topics (animal feed, livestock practices, international issues, environment, artificial intelligence, water quality and management, agrivoltaics, and more). This program reflects SPACE’s truly unique ability to offer content for all farmers and across all sectors.
For the first time this year, students in agricultural training will introduce their future professions to young people currently in general education. After an hour of discussions, these middle and high school students will visit SPACE accompanied by farmers.
They will also be able to stop by the “Camion de l’Aventure du Vivant” (Living Adventure Truck), which will be present throughout the exhibition. This truck is an initiative set up by the Ministry of Agriculture to promote agricultural training programs and careers. Inside, visitors will find interactive workshops and even take a virtual dive into different professional environments.
To support this momentum around giving young people a voice and perspective on careers and their future, SPACE is delighted to once again host the Journal des Lycées. This year, four agricultural training schools (MFRs) will produce the newspaper.
