EuroTier 2026: more than 30 dairy innovations among 175 recognised

A significant part of the list relates to dairy farming.

Milking and milk monitoring. GEA Farm Technologies will present the GEA DairyRobot R9600 milking robot, the GEA DairyProX system, a milk component sensor and the cloud-based GEA DairyNet solution for managing multiple farms. BouMatic Gascoigne Melotte will show its MilkGenius milk sampling system in three versions: group, whole-herd and random sampling. Afimilk (Israel) will present the AfiFarm Spark Milking Autopilot. Milk monitoring sensors have been entered by CowManager and MSD Animal Health (SenseHub Dairy). The list also includes the Pearson Titan smart pulsator (Ireland), a development by Milkrite | InterPuls (UK) and new Mueller milk coolers (Netherlands) using the natural refrigerant R290.

Health and reproduction. Lely will present its AI-based Lely Zeta calving monitoring system, Lock SmartSolutions its SmartCalving system, and IMV Technologies (France) the Bovintel Gestation V2 pregnancy diagnosis solution. smaXtec has entered a heat stress management system. Óbuda University (Budapest) will present RoBooVaxx, a robotic cow vaccination system, and a Chinese company an AI-based cattle facial recognition platform.

Cow comfort and barn climate. Barn cooling systems will be presented by Meier-Brakenberg, Lechler and Canarm. KRAIBURG and MIK International have entered flooring for lying areas and walkways, and Evergreen Village (USA) new stalls.

Feeding and calf rearing. The list includes the KUHN Librafeed feeding system, a feed dry matter sensor from Wasserbauer, Afimilk’s AfiCollar feed efficiency service, Hampel’s Calf-Tel calf hutches and Trouw Nutrition’s Milkiwean Actibar weaning product.

The published list does not specify which of these innovations received medals.