Adaptation of livestock farming systems to EU reform and restructuring

Date: 05 June ‘05; 14:00 - 18:00 hours
Chairperson: Gibon (F)

Theatre

• Diversity of livestock farming systems in Europe and prospective impacts of the CAP reform (Pflimlin, A. and C. Perrot)

• Rapid structural change in Danish dairy production (Clausen, S.)
• Decoupling: Irish farmers attitudes and planning intentions (Dunne, W. and M. Cushion)
• Consequences of the CAP reform for the Bavarian agriculture (Heissenhuber, A. and H. Hoffmann)
• Prospective economic incidence of the CAP reform on Spanish sheep farming systems (Manrique, E. and A. Olaizola)
• Sheep breed and system dynamics over the last thirty years: responding to policy and economic changes in the Britain (Pollot, G.E. and D.G. Stone)
• Short term impact of the EU membership on the Hungarian livestock sector (Wagenhoffer, Zs.)
• Economic position of beef sector in Hungary (Szabó, F., Gy. Buzás, Zs. Vincze, M. Török and Zs. Wagenhoffer)
• Strategies and management practices of part-time livestock farmers: an example of sheep farming in a French grassland region (Fiorelli, C., J.-Y. Pailleux and B. Dedieu)

Poster

• The impact of the EU direct payments on beef production systems and feed costs (Dunne, W.)
• Beef cattle sector in Hungary as affected by the enlargement (Wagenhoffer, Zs. and D. Mezoszentgyorgyi)
• New grassland management and quality adjustment strategies for dairy farmers in less-favoured areas (Thénard, V., J.P. Theau and M. Duru)
• Cost evaluation of the use of conventional and electronic identification for the national sheep and goat populations in Spain (Saa, C., M.J. Milán, G. Caja and J.J. Ghirardi)
• Comparison of cattle identification costs using conventional or electronic systems in Spain (Saa, C., M.J. Milán, G. Caja and J.J. Ghirardi)
• Effect of frequency of manure removal and drying on ammonia, methane, nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide emissions from laying hen houses (Piñeiro, C., G. Montalvo and M. Bigeriego)
• Best Available Techniques to reduce ammonia, methane and nitrous oxide emissions control from piglets facilities (Piñeiro, C., G. Montalvo and M. Bigeriego)