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Consultant-Practice-Network. Foundation Ecology & Agriculture Rainer Löser, Coordinator working groups, funds and report of the Consultant-Practice-Network Weinstr. Süd 51, 67098 Bad Dürkheim, Germany, Tel: ++49-6322-98970-0 Term of project: May 2004 til March 2007
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Consultant-Practice-Network • Foundation Ecology & Agriculture • Rainer Löser, Coordinator working groups, funds and report of the Consultant-Practice-Network • Weinstr. Süd 51, 67098 Bad Dürkheim, Germany, Tel: ++49-6322-98970-0 • Term of project: May 2004 til March 2007 • Project 03OE495 of the Bundesprogramm Ökologischer Landbau • Sponsor: BLE, Bonn
Aims and tasks of the project • To establish an German wide acting network of consultants to prepare a solid base of economical data for important production proceeds of the organic agriculture and the whole farm • Improvement of the economics of the different farm branches or of the whole farm through intensive consultancy • Development of an integrated system for the analysis of the whole farm or branches (Agricon farm comparison, full costs analysis of farm branches through the DLG-method)
Aims and tasks of the project • Cooperation of farmers, consultancy and science • Serving the knowledge data base with information • Use of the consultancy tools after the project
1. WG Farm Comparison: Development, creation and use of horizontal and vertical farm comparison (3 years) software: Agricon, Partners: 6 consultants, 1. year 50 farms, later 80 farms 2. WGOrganic Poultry Husbandry: Introduction of the full costs analysis (2 years), Collection of proofed data over the net of the farms software: excel tool pig, Partners: 10 consultants, 32 laying hens farms, 5 farms with young hens, 5 farms with chicken, 5 farms with turkeys 3. WGOrganic Milk Production: Introduction of the full costs analysis (2 years), Collection of proofed data over the net of the farms software: excel tool milking cows, Partners: 8 consultants, 45 farms 4. WGOrganic Piglet and Fattening Pig Production: Introduction of the full costs analysis (2 years), Collection of proofed data over the net of the farms software: excel tool pig, Partners: 12 consultants, 21 piglet producers, 26 farms with fattening pigs Four German wide working groups
Financing - Farmers Fee 100 – 200 € per year and farm or branch - Own involvement of the consultants or organisation with participation in four seminars without compensation of travel costs or unpaid work and office use - 80 % subsidy of the BLE