More than 125.000 visitors went through the enclosure during the five days of fair

The president of Ifesa and of the Deputation of Salamanca, Javier Churches, stood out in the balance realised of Agromaq 2012 the “success rotundo” of the contest in sight of the commercial results obtained with important sales and contacts in machinery, and some auctions of good livestock, with more than 428.000 euros. Also it stood out the professional backrest, institutional and of public, with 125.000 visitors, as well as the international character that situate clearly to Agromaq like referent agropecuario south of Europe.

The first words of Javier Churches in the official balance of the 29 International Fair Agropecuaria of Castile and Leon and 24 International Exhibition of Pure Livestock, Agromaq 2012, went to leave patent that the fair “has a very positive assessment by the professionals, with some economic results that redundan in the creation of wealth of a fundamental sector of the economy as it is the agriculture and livestock”. It remembered that the fair occupied more than 42.000 square metres of the enclosure ferial and had 600 display units pertinent of 38 Spanish provinces, France and Portugal. A fair that has had, therefore, 3% more than display units, as 500 were professional, and 2% more than occupation.

Miguel Árias Cañete, minister of Agriculture, during the inauguration of Agromaq 2012.

Regarding the pillars of Agromaq, the president of Ifesa praised the big image of the exposed machinery, whose commercial value surpassed the 22 million euros and with unitary prices that approached to the 200.000 euros. “We know that they have realised significant commercial transactions and good contacts in agricultural machinery, being minors the relative to the machinery grazier, by the situation of this sector”.

In matter grazier, the International Exhibition of Pure Livestock “has gone back to put of self-evident that it is the best sample of south livestock of Europe with difference”, indicated Javier Churches. A positive assessment that comes accompanied by the participation of more than 1.000 heads of livestock beef of 20 races, more than 350 of ovino and near of a hundred of pork, that participated in some morphological contests and some auctions that offered some positive results.

The official auctions of beef and ovino –pork did not celebrate– generated an economic movement of 428.530 euros by the 193 copies of beef and the 74 of ovino. The auction of the copies of the ten races of beef participants and that left without buyer 35 copies of the 228 presented, offered some good results when adding 402.530 euros the movement generated and establish a new maximum price by copy paid in the auction of Salamanca. Specifically a copy of charolés, champion of the national contest, property of the grazier salmantino Santiago Martín that purchased a grazier extremeño by 11.000 euros in front of the 6.000 euros of exit. Beside this high price stood out also the 8.000 and 7.050 euros of two copies of limousine.

Javier Churches indicated that in his contact with the graziers of the national morphological contests, charolés, limousine and blonda has appreciated his satisfaction by the location of the tracks calificadoras in the own ships of livestock, that has allowed them describe and show better the quality of his copies. Of the same way, the judges have coincided in signalling the increase of quality of the won participant in Salamanca, underlining that the contest of Salamanca of the race blonda in addition to strengthening , approaches in quality to which take place in France.

In the official auction of beef sold a total of 193 copies.

Also it alluded the president of Ifesa to the third pillar of the fair as they are the professional days, of which said “are a fundamental referent and will work so that the agriculturalists and graziers attend every year to Salamanca to know what really lives and sues the sector in formative matter”. In this sense stood out the day devoted to the modification of the Norm of quality of the pork Iberian, that woke up a big professional interest by the actuality of the proposal and that affects totally to the production and transformation of the product in Salamanca.

The professional days were another of the big foci of attention of Agromaq.