This section provides you with selected publications of the agri benchmark Beef and Sheep Network. The list of publications is under permanent extension and is updated frequently. Further information can be obtained from Claus Deblitz.
(listed by descending chronological order)
Working Paper 2/2011
Feedlots: a new tendency in global beef production?
Download English version (pdf-Document, 2850 kb), 05.01.2012
Download Spanish version (pdf-Document, 2870 kb), 11.01.2012
Working Paper 1/2011
agri benchmark - a new dimension for the analysis of the beef sector
Part 1: A global network for the exchange of information, knowledge and expertise generating sustainable, comparable, quantifiable information about farming systems, their economics, their framework conditions and perspectives worldwide
Download English version (pdf-Document, 3090 kb), 05.01.2012
Download Spanish version (pdf-Document, 3098 kb), 11.01.2012
Part 2: Measuring competitiveness of beef production by comparative analysis: 'Our core competence'
Download English version (pdf-Document, 2760 kb), 05.01.2012
Download Spanish version (pdf-Document, 2740 kb), 11.01.2012
Benchmarking the beef supply chain in eastern Indonesia. Final Report for Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research ACIAR, Project SMAR-2007-202.
Click for downloading from the ACIAR website here.
2011 Risk and Profit Conference Proceedings
International Benchmarking of Beef Production
Labor Efficiency and Productivity Benchmarks. Kansas Farm Management Association (KFMA), Newsletter March 2011, 11 p.
Click for downloading from the KFMA website here and scroll down for the March 2011 newsletter.
agri benchmark: Benchmarking Beef Farming Systems Worldwide
Conference Paper 54th AARES Conference 2010, Adelaide, Australia
An overview of agri benchmark, 21 p.
Download (pdf-Document, 278 kb)
Rindfleischerzeugung - Wirtschaftliches Standbein oder Risiko für unsere Betriebe? : eine Analyse vor dem Hintergrund der internationalen Wettbewerbsfähigkeit. DGfZ-Schriftenreihe, Band 54, Seite 40-59, deutsch, ISSN: 0949-8842
Download (pdf-Document, 670 kb)
Die Kosten im Vergleich.
DLG-Mitteilungen 04/09, S. 102-105. Zum Download der Langversion:
Download (pdf-Document, 1270 kb)
Beef production in Germany - production systems and their spatial distribution.
(Landbauforschung - vTI agriculture and forestry research, Volume 58, Issue 1+2/2008, Pages 29-44)
Download (pdf-Document, 3886 kb)
EU beef farming systems and CAP regulations, EAAP Technical Series No. 9
You can order this publication here.
Rinderzucht und Rindfleischerzeugung - Empfehlungen für die Praxis
(Landbauforschung Völkenrode, Sonderheft 313 / Special Issue 313)
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The EU CAP-reform of 2003 and its consequences for German beef farmers
(FAL Agricultural Research, Volume 57, Issue 2/2007)
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Rindermast - was passiert nach 2009?
DLG-Mitteilungen 05/07, S. 74-77.
Download (pdf-Document, 605 kb)
International competitiveness of organic beef production in Germany.
(FAL Agricultural Research, Volume 55, Issue 2/2005)
Download (pdf-Document, 172 kb)
Status quo and prospects of beef production world-wide.
(FAL Agricultural Research, Volume 54, Issue 4/2004)
Download (pdf-Document, 422 kb)
How competitive is Argentina's beef production?
(FAL Agricultural Research, Volume 54, Issue 2/2004)
Download (pdf-Document, 712 kb)
Internationale Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der ökologischen Rindfleischproduktion in Deutschland:
Zusammenfassung und Handlungsempfehlungen Download (pdf-Document, 291 kb)
Teil 1: Produktion Download (pdf-Document, 2956 kb)
Teil 2: Vermarktung Download (pdf-Document, 4617 kb)
Environmental and social standards in the context of WTO-negotiations
The Beef Supply Chain in the U.S. – Status, Development and Perspectives
Summary Download (pdf-Document, 151 kb)
Full version Download (pdf-Document, 2864 kb)
Betriebliche Entwicklungsstrategien für ausgewählte Rindermastbetriebe unter Berücksichtigung von Risiko
Zusammenfassung Download (pdf-Document, 175 kb)
Produktionssysteme, räumliche Verteilung und Struktur der Rindfleischproduktion in Deutschland
Zusammenfassung Download (pdf-Document, 159 kb)
Summary Download (pdf-Document, 151 kb)
Full version Download (pdf-Document, 7928 kb)
Entwicklungsstrategien für typische Rindermast- und Mutterkuhbetriebe nach Entkopplung der Direktzahlungen
Zusammenfassung Download (pdf-Document, 181 kb)
Summary Download (pdf-Document, 173 kb)