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EVENT NEWS<br />
Left: The new dates for Agritechnica are February 27 to<br />
March 5, 2022<br />
Agritechnica postponed<br />
Agritechnica is off<br />
for 2021 as organisers<br />
condemn a slow rollout<br />
of the COVID-19 vaccine<br />
in Germany. By Chris<br />
McCullough<br />
Organisers of the world’s largest agricultural machinery show<br />
have taken the tough decision to postpone Agritechnica<br />
until next year.<br />
Due to the latest extended COVID-19 restrictions prompted by<br />
a third wave going through Europe, organisers DLG (the German<br />
Agricultural Society) have postponed the event from its original<br />
November dates, to hold it from February 27 to March 5, 2022.<br />
In a statement, DLG says the German government’s slow<br />
movement to ensure a fast effective vaccination program is one<br />
of the reasons the show has been postponed.<br />
“Because of the continuing Coronavirus pandemic, as well as<br />
the progress of vaccination programs, both in Germany and<br />
abroad, the DLG, VDMA Agricultural <strong>Machinery</strong> Association<br />
and Agritechnica’s exhibitor advisory board have concluded<br />
that insufficient certainty for planning currently exists for the<br />
world-leading exhibition in November,” the statement says.<br />
“The new dates for Agritechnica are February 27 to March<br />
5, 2022. With the four-month postponement of the trade<br />
fair, the DLG, as organiser, as well as the members of the<br />
VDMA Agricultural <strong>Machinery</strong> Association, believe that<br />
the participating companies have the necessary certainty<br />
required for planning.”<br />
Prior to this decision two big name exhibitors, John Deere<br />
and SDF, had already pulled out of the show, while others<br />
were considering their positions.<br />
DLG chief executive Reinhard Grandke says that vaccines<br />
and COVID-19 test strategies are essential ingredients for<br />
Agritechnica to happen again.<br />
“Our top priority is to offer exhibitors and visitors certainty in<br />
planning but this is not currently the case,” he says.<br />
“We are convinced that by late summer, which is the<br />
deadline for exhibitors to register for Agritechnica 2022,<br />
we will be able to give our exhibitors and visitors the clarity<br />
necessary for certainty in their planning.”<br />
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