In focus: The topics of VDMA Agricultural Machinery
Increasing trade barriers, sanctions and isolation - anyone wanting to do business internationally these days is confronted with high hurdles and conditions in many places.
This year's annual meeting of the OECD Tractor Codes took place in Paris in the light of profoundly changed geopolitical conditions.
What impact will tariff decisions have on transatlantic relations or the global agricultural machinery trade? And how will the EU's change of course away from the Green Deal affect our industry?
Business relationships with South Africa are already well established among many VDMA members.
The VDMA supports ways to make sustainable use of market opportunities in Ukraine and for Ukraine.
This year, the VDMA Technical Working Group (AKT) once again demonstrated how crucial the exchange of ideas within the agricultural machinery industry is.
"Poland is a real dairy country. More than six million cattle are currently kept between the Carpathian Mountains and the Baltic Sea".
Anyone talking about the history of the Unimog cannot fail to mention Hans-Jürgen Wischhof.
Exclusively for our industry members, here are all the presentations from the AKT 2025 events.
Last year, agricultural machinery and tractor manufacturers in Germany recorded a noticeable double-digit decline in sales.
Current forecasts, key figures and background information on agricultural framework conditions, business and market development - worldwide, in Europe and in Germany.
Following a lengthy orientation phase on the topic of autonomy, the OECD invited the "Sub-working group (SWG) Robot Tractors" to a meeting in Toulouse, France.
The procedural instructions for implementing the 56th Ordinance amending road traffic regulations with regard to Section 19 (1) of the Road Traffic Licensing Regulations (StVZO) were published by the BMDV in the Verkehrsblatt.
Crops need nutrients and must be protected from pests. Innovative agricultural machinery and efficient fertilizers and pesticides ensure that this is achieved in a climate-friendly way.
From July 30 to August 6, 2025, the VDMA is offering a trip to Australia for agricultural machinery manufacturers in cooperation with DLG.
Proposal to amend two delegated regulations (brakes and functional safety) submitted to the responsible "Technical Committee for Agricultural Vehicles (TC-AV)" for comment.
On December 20, 2024, the Federal Council approved an amendment to the General Administrative Regulation on Road Traffic Regulations (VwV StVO).
The Regulation on type-approval and market surveillance of non-road mobile machinery (EU) 2025/14 was published in the Official Journal on January 8, 2025 and enters into force on January 28, 2025.
After stagnating at a level of between 400 and 500 million euros in the last decade, German mechanical engineering exports to Kazakhstan have almost doubled to 900 million euros in 2023.
Agriculture needs data, but not just any data, it needs easily accessible and well-connected data.
The agricultural machinery industry is focusing on climate-friendly diesel fuel alternatives in order to sustainably minimize exhaust emissions in agriculture.
The agricultural technology industry is an important enabler of the agribusiness of the future. This is because it makes it possible to harmonize economy and ecology. We will be demonstrating this at the Green Week on three sustainability paths.
In November, the VDMA conducted an international end customer survey to shed light on the economic situation of agricultural businesses in the most important export markets.
Thinking about the defossilization of tractors is a complex field of action.
Product safety is a valuable asset, especially when modern technology is involved.
Anyone who needs a spare part is in a hurry. The part number is not always immediately to hand, especially when installed or under operating conditions.
Current forecasts, key figures and background information on general agricultural conditions, business and market development - worldwide, in Europe and in Germany.
From 2027, the Digital Product Passport (DPP) will be mandatory for the first products.
Last Friday, the Aachen-based research institute fka presented a study commissioned by the EU Commission on the technical requirements of self-propelled machinery for use on public roads.
The new project to support the further development of OECD Tractor Codes began in mid-September.
Regional harvest forecasts can be a decisive guideline for agricultural machinery sales. After all, satellite data makes it possible to calculate very precise forecasts - even weeks before the harvest.
Digital technologies with potential for greater efficiency and sustainability are rapidly gaining in importance in arable and crop farming.
Anthony van der Ley is starting his second term as chairman of the VDMA Agricultural Machinery Association with strong support.
The agricultural technology industry is an important enabler of the agribusiness of the future. This is because it makes it possible to harmonize economy and ecology. Our latest annual report traces the developments of the last four years.
Data is driving the transformation in agriculture, with big data leading the way.
How the US elections in November could affect the industry's business in America was a key topic at the fall meeting of the VDMA's Americas regional group, which took place in Würzburg on September 11.
The Egyptian government is planning to develop almost 900,000 hectares of new agricultural land from existing desert landscapes.
Europe's largest open-air exhibition for the green sector will enter the next round from June 22 to 24, 2025.
For many years, the topic of increasing the performance of tractors and mobile machinery by intervening in the electronic engine control system ("chip tuning") has been the subject of controversial debate.
The members of the VDMA specialist department for transport technology re-elected Josef Fliegl Jr. as Chairman of the committee at the end of August.
When it comes to issuing an operating permit (ABE or individual approval), the harmonized EU type approval law will generally apply to mechanical engineering from 1 November 2024.
The ABC of standardization work and technical representation of interests was on the agenda of a well-attended information day in Frankfurt on 24 July.
Hardly any innovation topic is currently being discussed more intensively than AI - especially in the context of marketing.
The VDMA Agricultural Machinery Association anticipates extremely subdued development on the global agricultural machinery markets in 2024.
While there have been standardized attachment points for front or inter-axle implements in arable farming and municipal technology for many years, these attachment options are not standardized, especially for applications in viticulture and fruit growing.
Important challenges relating to the OECD Tractor Codes recently dominated the agenda at a working group meeting in Slovakia.
"Celebration of Modern Agriculture on the National Mall", or "Ag on the Mall" for short, presents modern agricultural technology in Washington DC.
Exclusively for our industry members here all presentations of the AKT events 2024.
In the past financial year 2023, the agricultural machinery industry grew once again in Germany as a production location.
Current forecasts, key figures and background information on agricultural conditions, business and market development - worldwide, in Europe and in Germany.
The agricultural machinery industry acts as an enabler of climate-friendly drives in agribusiness. In a position paper that has just been published, VDMA Agricultural Machinery defines the framework for alternative fuels and drives in agriculture.
For reasons of clarity, the EU Commission has published in the EU Official Journal L 194 of August 2, 2023 a complete list of references of harmonized standards in support of the Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC.
In the discussion about artificial food, there has recently been increasing talk of "artificial milk". Experts are talking about precision fermentation - a process similar in food technology terms to the process of brewing beer.
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