Ukrainian Beef Congress, the first congress of producers and exporters of beef will be held on November 24, within the framework of the Ukrainian Food Expo. Prepare to have your ideas about the beef and cattle market challenged and the new sources of your profit revealed. Key manufacturers, exporters and world-class experts will present their vision of the world beef market trends and successful exporter’s activity.

Find out,

• what earnings can provide fattening of bull-calves of dairy breeds,
• how to raise the cost of export products from 1.5 to 3.5 dollars in terms of live weight,
• how to organize an effective chain – from the birth of a calf to an Arab importer,
• why deep processing is more profitable than export of live animals, and where to sell offal,
• what typical mistakes of producers explain the lack of beef in the Ukrainian market.

A detailed program is available below. Ukrainian Beef Congress is a unique opportunity for you to gain knowledge that will help to develop your exports and take advantageous niches in the most marginal markets, like the Middle East. Use the opportunity to get detailed business plans for fattening and deep processing right at the event!

Organizers of the Congress: the Ukrainian Food Export Board (UFEB), the Association of Milk Producers (AVM), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).

The participation price is 2250 UAH per person.

To register, call + 380683034536 or send an e-mail to [email protected].

Speakers

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM OF THE CONGRESS*

11:00 Registration. Morning coffee

12:00 Official opening and welcome speech 
Olga Trofimtseva, Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food for European Integration

12:15 How to profit $2 billion from beef? World and regional beef market overview
Andriy Yarmak, economist of the investment department of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

12:45 Problems of beef producers and processors found during the preparation of the sector to entering the EU market
Kateryna Onul, adviser to the World Bank Group on Food Law

13:00 EU beef market. Production, consumer trends, comsumption forecasts
Caroline Monniot, French Livestock Institute

13:30 Requirements of the Arab world for Ukrainian beef. Products, prices, volumes.
Pär Söderlund, Suma Gourmet General Trading LLC

14:00  Successful experience of Ukrainian beef sales
Denys Kryvenko, T-bone

14:30 – 15:30 Lunch. Tasting of steaks from T-bone

15:30 The local dairy calves from the private sector generate additional revenue for the processor and households.
Yuriy Gudz, Konsalt Agro LLC

16:00 Ration options and feeding system of cull dairy cows for high-quality beef production. Economically feasible size of feedlots, budget feeding system, herd management.
Lyubomyr Dykun, Association of Milk Producers

16:20 Export of beef cuts rather than live cattle or semi-carcasses. What way Ukraine to choose?
Yevgen Shatokhin, FAO

16:35 Chilled beef: way from slaughtering to consumers.
Yevgen Shatokhin, FAO
Alexander Sviridenko, Sealed Air *

17:00 Beef market in 2018: trends and outlook. The aspects of beef by-products export 
Volodymyr Hontar, independent expert

17:20 Cooperative beef production as the key to Ukrainian competitiveness on the world market.
Vasyl Govgera, EBRD