EDF Congress 2015
25 years of entrepreneurship –
always looking to the future!
24 – 26 June 2015, Rostock, Germany
25 years of EDF
Dear EDF friends,
25 years have gone, since a handful interested and
com-mitted dairy related people started to work on the idea
of a benchmarking club for European dairy farmers.
The project could have been outdated, but it attracts
today more and more open minded and front running
dairy farmers who are eager to improve and find solu
-tions to adapt in a changing world.
In EDF, we don’t do politics or lobbying, but we’re
mak-ing the European idea become reality every time we
meet. Our differences are a source of inspiration and
capacity building, not of judgement. Where can you
find a farmer with 2,500 cows discussing about his work, challenges and per
-spectives with a farmer who has 25 cows? Only in EDF. They find inspiration
in each other’s experience, because they are driven by a common passion of
being a satisfied and successful dairy farmer.
Welcome to our next and inspiring EDF congress in Rostock!
Sincerely yours
Katrine Lecornu EDF President
Hamburg
Berlin Rostock
Rostock: easy to reach
by plane and train!
Wednesday 24 June, 2015
Start
End Topic
11:00 14:00 Registration Rostock Congress Hall 12:00 14:00 Small snacks
13:00 13:30 Press conference 14:00 14:05 Welcome address
Henning Helms, President EDF Germany
14:05 14:20 Welcome address
Katrine Lecornu, President EDF International
14:20 15:20 Dairy production in Germany
Dr. Birthe Lassen, Thünen Institute of Farm Economics & EDF members
15:20 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 17:00 Agricultural developments in Eastern Germany in the past 50 years as basis for future development
Tim Koesling, Koesling Anderson and EDF members
17:00 17:30 The dairy sector today and tomorrow
Dr. Jeremy Hill, President International Dairy Federation
17:30 18:00 Care for your life!
Dr. Marco Freiherr von Münchhausen,
Dr. Marco Freiherr von Münchhausen & Partner, Lectures & Coaching
18:00 18:30 25 years of EDF: Congratulations
Prof. Folkhard Isermeyer, President Thünen Institute; Ulrich Westrup, Vice president DLG & former EDF presidents
18:30 Dinner and partner exhibition
Congress Program:
EDF Congress 2015
24 – 26 June, 2015
Rostock, Germany
25 years of entrepreneurship –
Thursday 25 June, 2015
Start
End Topic
08:00 09:00 EDF Cost of Production Comparison 2015: Latest results of old and new approaches
Steffi Wille-Sonk, EDF International
09:00 09:30 Precision farming in modern silage production
Peter Lauer, John Deere
09:30 10:00 How to meet future needs of cows and milkers in automatic milking systems?
Erich Schneider, GEA Farm Technologies GmbH
10:00 10:30 Coffee break
10:30 12:30 Workshops (see next page in this invitation) 12:30 13:00 Departure of busses
13:00 19:00 Farm visits
19:00 Dinner at Ecki's farm (Meiners & Hobel GbR)
Friday 26 June, 2015
Start
End Topic
07:00 13:00 Farm visits
13:00 13:30 How to motivate staff in different herd sizes?
Erik Wensink, Dairy farmer in Thüringen and the Netherlands
13:30 14:00 How to communicate modern dairy production to the society?
Peter Berndgen, agro-kontakt GmbH
14:00 14:40 Coffee break 14:40 16:10 General Assembly
EDF
16:10 16:30 Milk price comparison
Willem Koops, ZUIVELNL
16:30 17:00 Looking to the future: Dairy production in 25 years?
Prof. Folkhard Isermeyer, President Thünen Institute
18:00 Boat trip to Warnemünde
Please make your workshop choice on the attached form or online.
More Workshops and Lectures (one hour each – two to choose)
Forage production – Challenges and requirements for profitable dairy farming High quality forage production is a key success factor in dairy production. But high quality and economic results do not always go hand in hand. Which are key factors to evaluate forage pro-duction economically? How will these factors change in future and how can dairy farmers react? Financing Growth – Business development for family enterprises
What are the key risk factors for a lending bank when it comes to expansion financing? Practical examples will be used to discuss and evaluate possible development scenarios and different ways of financing growth, with particular emphasis on: Profitability and cost analysis, funding structure and liquidity, land holdings and securing basic staple fodder, labour organi-sation and personnel management.
CoP for everybody: CoP results from a global perspective: What can we learn in terms of current situation, trends and future challenges for dairy farms? Participants will discuss the CoP results presented in the plenary session and are invited to ask content-based and methodical questions.
Personnel training: How can ordinary people achieve extraordinary results? With dairy farms becoming even larger, more and more central tasks are performed by people who are not from the field or need to be trained. Looking at different examples from daily farm life (e.g. ensiling process, calf rearing, ...), we will discuss how to train people best. Best practise examples give you ideas for your own personnel management..
CoP-Intensive I: Farmer-to-Farmer advice: Farmers tell each other how weak points of their farms could be improved
The workshop includes discussions in very small groups. Limited to advanced CoP participants with at least 2 years CoP participation.
CoP-Intensive 2: Why do you not improve the worst point of your farm?
Participants will discuss the weak points of their farms in the group. Open for every farmer that has provided farm data for the CoP.
CoP-Intensive 3: Dealing with volatility
Participants discuss the development of their CoP results in the group to better understand, if and how some farms better manage their costs when prices fluctu-ate. Limited to CoP participants with at least 3 years CoP participation.
CoP-Intensive 4: Human resource management for high labor productivity
Participants will discuss options for better labor productivity on their own farms by better managing hired workers. Limited to farms with CoP participation, at least 2 employees and a completely filled table on worked hours in the dairy enterprise.
Touristic program (2 hours):
You need some fresh air and would like to see the highlights of Rostock? Take a 2 hour walking tour from the Congress Hall into the city and back to the Congress Hall.
Workshops
Workshops (2 hours each – only one workshop to choose)
Please note special requirements for CoP-Intensive-Workshops, participants will re-ceive more information in advance via email to prepare themselves for the discussion.
Hotels and Travel Information
Dear guests, please ensure that you book the hotels yourself!
All prebooked hotels are in walking distance to the Congress Hall (“Stadthalle”) (max. 25 minutes walk). You can also easily take the public transport (tram). The boat stop for the Gala dinner is also in walking distance to the Radisson Blu and the Motel One Hotel (5 minutes walk). Shuttles will only be provided from Intercity hotel to the boat stop (Rostock Stadthafen).
Motel One and Radisson Blu to venue centre: Take tram no. 4 from “Schröder-platz” to “Stadthalle”
IntercityHotel: walking distance to venue centre “Stadthalle”
Venue centre to city harbour: Take tram no. 4 from “Stadthalle” to “Stadthafen”
Please find more information at: fahrplanauskunft.verkehrsverbund-warnow.de
Find the trip planner app here:
Boat stop (“Stadthafen“) Congress Hall (“Stadthalle“) Radisson blue (“Schröderplatz“) InterCity Motel One (“Schröderplatz“)
Hotels – for all bookings please
use keyword “EDF”
InterCityHotel Rostock, Herweghstraße 51 Phone: +49 (0) 381 49 50 990
Fax: +49 (0) 381 49 50 999 E-mail: rostock@intercityhotel.de www.intercityhotel.com
Single rooms per night: 89 € incl. breakfast Double rooms per night: 99 € incl. breakfast
Radisson Blu Hotel Rostock, Lange Straße 40 Phone: +49 (0) 381 37 50 35 00
Fax: +49 (0) 381 37 50-35 90
E-mail: reservations.rostock@radissonblu.com
www.radissonblu.de/hotel-rostock
Single rooms per night: 119 € incl. breakfast Double rooms per night: 139 € incl. breakfast
Motel One Rostock, Schröderplatz 2 Phone: +49 (0) 381 66 69 19 0 Fax: +49 (0) 381 66 69-19 10 E-mail: rostock@motel-one.com
www.motel-one.com/de/hotels/rostock/rostock
June 24–26, 2015:
Single rooms per night: 88.50 € incl. breakfast Double rooms per night: 113 € incl. breakfast June26–27, 2015:
Single rooms per night: 68.50 € incl. breakfast Double rooms per night: 93 € incl. breakfast
Map source © 2015 GeoBasis-DE/BKG (© 2009),Google
Visit SCHAUMANN’s Research farm –
join the Post-Tour!
Dear EDF members, dear Congress delegates,
as long term EDF partner we are looking forward to celebrating your 25th birthday
with you! Before you go home, we invite you to discover “Gut Hülsenberg” – our research farm – with us.
77 years SCHAUMANN, 62 years “Gut Hülsenberg”, 31 years ISF Schaumann Research – we would like to show you the new approach in “Gut Hülsenberg” and several innovations inside and outside the dairy barn!
If you would like to join us in your own car – no problem! We are looking forward to seeing you there! For organizational reasons, please also register for the tour!
Gut Hülsenberg GmbH Wiesenweg 32
23812 Wahlstedt
Saturday, 27th of June, 2015
Departure in Rostock: 9:00
11:00 Introduction “Gut Hülsenberg” 12:00 Lunch
13:00 Farm visit/visit research area 16:00 Departure to Airport Hamburg 17:00 Arrival Airport Hamburg
Dear EDF members, dear Congress delegates,
GEA Farm Technologies would like to invite you to visit one of our DairyProQ refer-ence farms in Thuringia or Saxony (Germany) close to the city of Weimar or Dresden.* You will have the opportunity to see our fully automated rotary in operation as one of the first after its presentation at the last EuroTier in Hannover that will be intro-duced in Germany, UK, USA, Canada and the Netherlands in the course of 2015. Currently, these farms have 250 and 1,100 cows, resp. Besides having a farm tour on site, you will be able to watch the milking, guided by our DairyProQ experts, who will also be available for discussions during the whole tour.
Tour plan:
Time Saturday 27th of June, 2015 Sunday 28th of June, 2015
8:00 from 8:00 breakfast
8:30 8:30 departure at the Congress Hall (“Stadthalle”) Rostock
9:00 9:00 check out | departure of the bus 12:00 Lunch Approx. 13:00 arrival at
Airport Berlin-Schönefeld 13:00 DairyProQ reference farm
16:00 Approx. 17:00 arrival at Airport Rostock 19:00 Check in at the hotel in Dresden
or Weimar | Dinner
Please register for the tour!
Package Price: 150 € (includes: Bus transfer, accommodation, catering) Minimum number of participants: 9
Maximum number of participants: 40
General Information
Convention venue: The congress takes place in Messe- und Stadthalle Rostock, Südring 90, 18059 Rostock, Phone: +49 (03 81) 44 00-110,
Fax: +49 (03 81) 44 00-200, Website: http://www.messe-und-stadthalle.de, E-mail: kontakt@messeundstadthalle.de
Congress office: Dr. Birthe Lassen, European Dairy Farmers – Deutsche Gruppe e.V., c/o Thünen Institute of Farm Economics, Bundesallee 50,
38116 Braunschweig, Phone: +49 531 596 5170, Fax: +49 531 596 5199, Mobile: +49 179 75 68 189, E-Mail: congress2015@dairyfarmer.net, Website: www.dairyfarmer.net
Registration and registration fee: Conference attendance fees are listed on the registration form “Congress registration form” attached to this invitation. All dele-gates are kindly requested to fill in the registration form and to return it by fax or post or as pdf-attachment by E-mail to Dr. Birthe Lassen in the EDF
congress office (see address above) in Braunschweig before April 30th 2015.
For online registration go to www.dairyfarmer.net.
Cancellation: For cancellation before April 30th 2015 a charge of 25 % of the
conference fee will apply. For cancellation between April 30th and May 30th 2015 it
will be 60 % of the conference fee. No refund for cancellation after May 31st 2015.
Methods of payment: After we receive your registration form, we will send you an invoice/confirmation. Payment is possible either by credit card or by money transfer via international bank transaction. Please use IBAN and BIC / SWIFT code for bank transaction; this will reduce costs and it is available from almost every European bank. Your invoice must be paid 30 days before the official conference opening. Delegates with amounts outstanding will be asked to pay cash in EURO (€) at the registration desk. Credit card payment (VISA / MasterCard / Maestro) is also possible.
Language: The working language of the EDF Congress 2015 will be English.
Insurance: Please note that the organizers do not provide any insurance for EDF 2015 congress delegates.
Policy agreement: By registering for the conference you agree that photos of you may be taken and may be published in any kind of EDF context.
Post-Tour: Please register for your Post-Tour-Choice with the attached form. Your registration details will be forwarded to the particular EDF partner and will be processed there. You will receive a confirmation directly from them and will pay possible fees directly to their accounts.
VISA: Visitors from EU member states and the Schengen countries do not require an entry visa for Germany. Congress delegates from non EU member states are kindly requested to contact the local German embassy to check whether they need an entry visa for visiting Germany. More information can be found here: http://www.auswaertiges-amt.de/EN.
Accommodation: Delegates have to book their own accommodation. The EDF 2015 conference fee does not include accommodation costs. Hotel rooms have been reserved for delegates of the EDF Congress, and must be booked not later than April 30th. Please see information enclosed.
Arriving and departing by plane: EDF 2015 delegates should make their own travel arrangement to the congress venue. Shuttle service from the airports will not be provided.
Please see railway timetables here: http://www.bahn.de/p_en/view/index.shtml. Flight-in options are: Berlin Schönefeld Airport: Take the train from the airport which leaves every 2 hours. The train ride takes between 3:20 h to 4:40 h. Berlin
Tegel Airport: Take the train from the airport which leaves every 2 hours. The train ride takes about 3:05 h. Hamburg Airport: Take the train from the airport which leaves every hour. The train ride takes between 2:20 h and 3:07 h. See timetable at: www.bahn.de. Rostock Airport: please see special timetable for bus shuttle: http://www.rebus.de/download/127-Flughafen-Rostock-Laage.pdf
Arriving and departing by train: The congress venue is in 5 minutes walking distance from the railway station. There is also the public bus no. 27 or tram no. 6 from “Hauptbahnhof” to “Stadthalle” (takes 1 minute). For more detailed informa-tion have a look on the map in this brochure.
Please find more information at: http://www.rsag-online.de/en/home
Arriving and departing by car: Look at the map in this brochure. Parking is dif-ficult in Rostock! If you would like to have a parking place at your hotel, please book one in advance. You can also leave your car at the Stadthalle: parking fee is 3 €/day.
Youngsters Tour: Especially for young farmers, EDF offers this year a special Youngsters Bus. Farmers up until 30 years old can apply to take the “Youngsters Special”. Meaning they will all take one bus together and pay 100 € less for the full Congress. In order to have a good country distribution, there are country contingents. Applicants will be informed if their registration was successful or if they are on the waiting list.
A club of farmers for farmers
Main EDF agribusiness partners
Gold partners
Stalltechnik für Rinder und Schweine
Silver partners
Bronze partners
Supporter
More agribusiness partners supporting EDF
AGROVISION B.V., Deventer, Netherlands CERFrance Adheo, France
Interpuls, Albinea, Italy Invivo NSA, Vannes, France
Lemmer Fullwood GmbH, Germany
EDF agribusiness partners
