Day 1:
Arrival to Ben Gurion Int.
Transfer to your hotel.
Welcome drink at the hotel. Diner
and overnight at your hotel.
Day 2:
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Visit to SCR ENGINEERS
LTD, in Netanya – develops, manufactures, markets and supports
sophisticated dairy management systems & milking equipment factory.
Introduction to the S.C.R milking/management (incl. rumination tags).
·
Visit village’s dairy farms
in Kfar Vitkin.
·
Mr. Eitan Golan –
small dairy farmer, free stalls, milking robot.
·
Mr. Shai Banshaul low
tech farm, 100 cows/ 11,000 kg avg.
Diner and overnight at your hotel.
Day 3:
·
Visit to feed center Kfar
Vitkin, who supplies the food for the farms on the villages, 200 tons per
day.
·
Mr. Arnon Oshri – 65
cows / 12,000 kg avg, cultivating loose housing. Overview of israeli Dairy
sector and open discussion the future of dairy farming.
·
Visit to SION –
Insemination Center of Isarel the only insemination company in Israel,
inseminate over 95% of the cows.
·
Visit to Cow and Buffalo
dairy factory at farm village Bitsaron.
·
Driving to Jerusalem.
Diner and overnight in Jerusalem.
Day 4:
Touristic day in Jerusalem.
Day 5:
Touristic day on the way to the north.
·
Visit the Dead Sea.
·
Visit of Massada.
Diner and overnight in a Kibbutz near the Sea of Galilee.
Day 6:
·
Visit to SAE AFIKIM
factory “AFIMILK SYSTEMS” dairy management systems & milking
equipment (working with full wood) projects, develops, manufactures.
·
Visit to AFIKIM dairy farm
300 milking cows, 4 million liter/year and experiment farm for AFIMILK factory.
·
Visit Sneidman Family at
Moshavat Kinneret for Agro-turism and movie about the first settlements in
the area.
·
Traveling around the Sea
of Galilee where Jesus was walking on the water.
·
Visit milk farm in Ramat
Hagolan – Yonathan, operated by SAE Afimilk systems, producing 13
million titer/year with a feed center that supplies own farm and sells to
outside clients.
Diner and overnight in a Kibbutz near the Sea of Galilee.
Day 7:
·
Visit the milk production
Dairy of TNOUVA ALON TAVOR producing – yogurt, milk, white cheese and
other dairy products.
·
Visit the Kibbutz
Merchavia a recycling center of A.C RECYCLING COMPANY.
·
Visit on HARDOUF ORGANIC
kibbutz farm (organic farm for vegetables and dairy production using
exclusively natural addictive’s products in the animal food and vegetables
treatment.
·
Visit to Village farm working with Solar Energy
Solution.
·
Visit to Kfar Yeoshua
Food Center.
·
Visit Tamir Family
fattening calf farm, with 1000 cattle heads, partially importing cattle
from different parts of Europe and feeding from feed center.
Diner and overnight in a Kibbutz near the Sea of Galilee.
Day 8:
·
Touristic visit to Nazareth
the holy city of Jesus.
·
Visit and seminar at ICBA
(Israel cattle breeding association) in Caesarea, introducing the
association activities. ICBA is a non-lucrative association of cooperative and
collective dairy farmers, maintening close relations with all entities
concerned with dairying, for the mutual benefit of dairy producers and
consumers. ICBA represents and safeguards the interests of dairy farmers and of
the dairy industry, within the socio-political framework.
·
Visit to Hachaklait
– Veterinarian Association, providing veterinarian services to 90% of the
Israeli dairy cattle (fields of expertise: Herd Health & Epidemiology,
Lameness, Ultrasound, Young stock & Replacement, Parasitology, Nutrition
& Clinical nutrition, Small Ruminants, Beef & feedlot).
·
Visit to the National
Laboratory for milk analyses and quality with Dr. Marina, laboratory
manager.
