Award Ceremonies

Hubertus Paetow, President of DLG e.V. (l.) and Alois Rainer, Federal Minister of Agriculture, Food and Home Affairs (r.) honour Cathrina Claas-Mühlhäuser, Chairwoman of the Shareholders' Committee and Supervisory Board of CLAAS KGaA mbH (2nd from left), Gilles Marulier , Project Manager QUADRANT Phase 2 (3rd from left), Laurent Rongvaux, Head of Square Baler Development and System Engineer (centre), Volker Fuchs, Head of PU Balers (2nd from right) and Stefan Berkemann, Head of Baler Development (2nd from right)

Hubertus Paetow, President of DLG e.V. (l.) and Alois Rainer, Federal Minister of Agriculture, Food and Home Affairs (r.) honour Dr Marcus Scherer, Chief Engineering, Aebi Schmidt Group (2nd from left), Lukas Halter, Manager Engineering Aebi, Aebi & Co. AG Maschinenfabrik (3rd from left), Werner Müller, Managing Director Müller Landmaschinen GmbH, inventor of Line Traction (2nd from right) and Johannes Müller, Development Engineer Müller Landmaschinen GmbH (3rd from right).

Hubertus Paetow, President of DLG e.V.

Olaf Lies, Minister President of Lower Saxony

Alois Rainer, Federal Minister for Agriculture, Food and Home Affairs

Anthony van der Ley, Chairman VDMA Agricultural Machinery

Dr Markus Demmel, Chairman of the DLG Innovation Commission / Chairman of the Innovation Award Jury

Editor-in-chief of agrar heute, Simon Michel-Berger, welcomed the audience and award winners and hosted the medal ceremony.

DLG President Hubertus Paetow addressed the silver medallists.

Christoph Franke (left) and Robin Schütte accepted the medal and certificate from DLG President Hubertus Paetow and Dr Markus Demmel (right) for the innovative driveline management system from Claas.

Riccardo Buratti, Alessio Pulcini, Cedric Bache and Alberto Bellini (2nd from left to 2nd from right) accepted the medal and certificate from DLG President Hubertus Paetow and Dr Markus Demmel (right) for the Tractor Assisted Guided System from Same Deutz-Fahr Deutschland GmbH.

Ansgar Lange gen. Detert (2nd from left) and Philipp Blumhoff accepted the medal and certificate from DLG President Hubertus Paetow (left) and Dr Markus Demmel (right) on behalf of the Grimme Go-Clean concept.

Leopold and Michael Einböck (Einböck GmbH) and Tobias Künnen (Claas E Systems GmbH) accepted the medal and certificate from DLG President Hubertus Paetow (left) and Dr Markus Demmel (right) for the SMART-HILL concept.

Theodor Leeb and Fabian Zellmer (2nd and 3rd from left) accepted the medal and certificate from DLG President Hubertus Paetow (left) and Dr Markus Demmel (right) for the Proactive BoomControl innovation from Horsch Maschinen GmbH.

For the proud winners: the "Innovation Award Agritechnica" silver medal.

Christian Gotzen and Andreas van Kann (2nd and 3rd from left), together with partner Nicola Lemken, accepted the medal and certificate from DLG President Hubertus Paetow (left) and Dr Markus Demmel (right) for the iQblue fan automation innovation from Lemken GmbH & Co KG.

Sebastian Steinhorst and Thomas Wessels accepted the medal and certificate from DLG President Hubertus Paetow (left) and Dr Markus Demmel (right) for the ZA-TS 01 AutoSpread innovation from Amazonen-Werke H. Dreyer.

Michael Heistermann and Markus Einck-Roßkamp (2nd and 3rd from left) accepted the medal and certificate from DLG President Hubertus Paetow (left) and Dr Markus Demmel (right) for the Bioselect RC 250 innovation from Börger GmbH.

Maximilian Zimmer and Volker Stöcklin (2nd and 3rd from left) accepted the medal and certificate from DLG President Hubertus Paetow (left) and Dr Markus Demmel (right) for the VarioSmart innovation from Rauch Landmaschinenfabrik GmbH.

Julien Burel and Lionel Leveille (2nd and 3rd from left) accepted the medal and certificate from DLG President Hubertus Paetow (left) and Dr Markus Demmel (right) for the Fertieye innovation from Sky Agriculture.

Dr Reimer Tiessen and Rüdiger Stehen (2nd and 3rd from left) accepted the medal and certificate from DLG President Hubertus Paetow (left) and Dr Markus Demmel (right) for the Yield EyeQ innovation from Carl Geringhoff Vertriebsgesellschaft.

Dr Katalin Csehi and Christoph Gröblinghoff (2nd and 3rd from left) accepted the medal and certificate from DLG President Hubertus Paetow (left) and Dr Markus Demmel (right) for the Innovation Forage Quality Cam of Fendt - AgCo GmbH.

Dr Lars Würker and Andreas Schellberg (2nd and 3rd from left) accepted the medal and certificate from DLG President Hubertus Paetow (left) and Dr Markus Demmel (right) for the EasyCut 3 innovation from Group Schumacher.

Dennis Neitemeier and Sven Belau (2nd and 3rd from left) accepted the medal and certificate from DLG President Hubertus Paetow (left) and Dr Markus Demmel (right) for the Cemos Auto Chopping innovation from Claas.

Matthias Weber and Andreas Afting (2nd and 3rd from left) accepted the medal and certificate from DLG President Hubertus Paetow (left) and Dr Markus Demmel (right) for the OptiSet innovation from Maschinenfabrik Bernhard Krone GmbH.

Henrik Hansen and Laurent Libbrecht (2nd and 3rd from left) accepted the medal and certificate from DLG President Hubertus Paetow (left) and Dr Markus Demmel (right) for the ForageCam System innovation from New Holland.

Sebastian Flöthmann and Claudius Knierbein (2nd and 3rd from left) accepted the medal and certificate from DLG President Hubertus Paetow (left) and Dr Markus Demmel (right) for the Jaguar 1000 innovation from Claas.

Markus Ströbel-Fröschle and Dr Florian Rahe (2nd and 3rd from left) accepted the medal and certificate from DLG President Hubertus Paetow (left) and Dr Markus Demmel (right) for the EasyMatch innovation from Amazonen-Werke H. Dreyer SE.

Matthew Crocket and Tero Saari (2nd and 3rd from left) accepted the medal and certificate from DLG President Hubertus Paetow (left) and Dr Markus Demmel (right) for the Intuitu 2.0 Smart innovation from Nokian Heavy Tyres Ltd.

The winners of the "Innovation Award Agritechnica" silver medal 2025

Dr Markus Demmel, Director of Agriculture at the Bavarian State Research Centre for Agriculture, addressed the audience and the medal winners.

Hubertus Paetow (left) and Prof. Dr. Till Meinel (right) present the award to André Schönhaar, Key Account Agriculture (2nd from left), and Uwe Sund, Product Manager Heavy Duty (3rd from left), from igus GmbH.

Hubertus Paetow (left) and Prof Dr Till Meinel (right) present the award to Rhett Schildroth, CTO MACH (2nd from left) and Colin Hurd, CEO MACH (3rd from left)

Hubertus Paetow (left) and Prof Dr Till Meinel (right) present the award to Dirk Brannolte - Head of Agricultural Machinery Systems (3rd from left) and Samuel Willems - Technical Project Manager for Agricultural Machinery Systems (2nd from left) from the ZF Group

Group photos of the award winners

Freya von Czettritz, CEO at DLG Holding and Yuliya Bondarenko, jury member, present the award to Linda Kelly (2nd place in the Agribusiness category) (from left to right)

Freya von Czettritz, CEO at DLG Holding (l.) and Yuliya Bondarenko, jury member (r.), present the award to Alicia Gómez Giménez (3rd place in the Agribusiness category)

Freya von Czettritz, CEO at DLG Holding (l.) and Judith de Vor, jury member (r.), present the award to Robyn Mijares (1st place in the Education category)

Freya von Czettritz, CEO at DLG Holding (l.) and Judith de Vor, jury member (r.), present the award to Lysette Lacambra (2nd place in the Education category)

Freya von Czettritz, CEO at DLG Holding (l.) and Dr Jane Tapel, jury member (r.), present the award to Cécile Deterre (1st place in the Technology and Research category)

Freya von Czettritz, CEO at DLG Holding (l.) and Dr Jane Tapel, jury member (r.), present the award to Dr Maria Theresa M. Mutia, (3rd place in the Research and Education category)

Freya von Czettritz, CEO at DLG Holding (l.) and Dr Jane Tapel, jury member (r.), present the award to Lamai Yapanan, (3rd place in the Research and Education category)

Group photo

Group photo

Dr Jane Tapel (82nd from right) with the award winners Dr Maria Theresa M. Mutia (l.), Robyn Mijares (2nd from right) and Lysette Lacambra (r.)

Kim Schoukens, founder and publisher of Women in Ag-Magazine, Belgium (l.) in conversation with Freya von Czettritz, CEO at DLG Holding

Judith de Vor, dairy farmer, Netherlands (jury member)

Robyn Mijares, Philippines (1st place in the Education category)

Lysette Lacambra, Philippines (2nd place in the Education category)

Dr Jane Tapel, Director of Agriculture and Fisheries, Philippines (Jury Member)

Cécile Deterre, Austria (1st place in the Technology and Research category)

Dr Maria Theresa M. Mutia, Philippines (3rd place in the Technology and Research category)

Lamai Yapanan, Thailand (3rd place in the Technology and Research category)

DLG President Hubertus Paetow presented Norbert Schlingmann, AEF e.V., Johann Witte, Claas and Dr Tobias Nothdurft, Fendt (from left) and their teams with the award and certificate.

DLG President Hubertus Paetow presented Samuel Pantke, TU Dresden, Florian Löckle and Rolf Zürn, Zürn Harvesting, Andreas Schmidt and Moritz Gaßan, EXAgt and Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Thomas Herlitzius, TU Dresden (from left) award and certificate.

DLG President Hubertus Paetow presented Dr Wolfram Strothmann and Mustafa Akgün, SLS Systementwicklungen GmbH (from left) with the award and certificate.

DLG President Hubertus Paetow presented Stefan Kiefer and Jens Wiethoff, amazone, Dietrich Kortenbruck and Frederik Fasselt Witte from EXA (from left) award and certificate.

DLG President Hubertus Paetow presented Dr Josef Franko and Stella Lorscheidt from AI.Land (from left) with the award and certificate.

All winners of the DLG Agrifuture Concept Winner Award were delighted to receive the award.

Heike Zeller, jury member (left), Dr Veronika Drexl, Junge DLG (second from left) and Freya von Czettritz, CEO of DLG Holding (right) present the award to Nina Kleine (first place nationally).

Heike Zeller, jury member (left), Dr Veronika Drexl, Junge DLG (second from left) and Freya von Czettritz, CEO of DLG Holding (right) present the award to Patrick Danuser (second place nationally).

Heike Zeller, jury member (left), Dr Veronika Drexl, Junge DLG (second from left) and Freya von Czettritz, CEO of DLG Holding (right) present the award to Philipp Pelzer (third place nationally).

Heike Zeller, jury member (left), Dr Veronika Drexl, Junge DLG (second from left) and Freya von Czettritz, CEO of DLG Holding (right) present the award to Noah Young (first place internationally).

Heike Zeller, jury member (left), Dr Veronika Drexl, Junge DLG (second from left) and Freya von Czettritz, CEO of DLG Holding (right) present the award to Franco Speranza (second place internationally).

Heike Zeller, jury member (left), Dr Veronika Drexl, Junge DLG (second from left) and Freya von Czettritz, CEO of DLG Holding (right) present the award to Tom Carlisle (third place internationally).

Agri Influencer Award (group photo)

Agri Influencer Award (group photo)