agri benchmark Beef and Sheep Conference 2020 took place in electronic format!

Like many other events, our annual agri benchmark conferences could not take place as usual. The Beef and Sheep Conference was supposed to take place from 12-17 June in Prague. Together with our Czech partner Institute of Agricultural Economics and Information (UZEI), we decided to move the physical meeting by one year to June 2021.

We proceeded as every year, updating our market and production databases to 2019!

To keep the spirit, communication, and cooperation in our networks up and going despite the radical changes in our personal and professional lives, this year’s conference went online. It took place during the originally envisaged period and included the core elements:

• Global Overview of the Beef and Sheep Industry,
• Covid-19 impacts
• International Farm Comparisons (benchmarking)
• Workshops on Sheep Marketing and Best Practices of Climate Adaption

A summary report will be published in the third quarter of 2020, and several other results will be published separately and in different formats.

The Beef and Sheep Conference 2019 in Namibia – good old times when we could meet in person!