# Ziv Matalon Consultant & Management Ltd.

> Israeli agricultural consultancy founded in 2006 by Ziv Matalon. It designs, builds, starts up and manages dairy farms (100–5,000 cows) with beef production, beef feedlots (1,000–10,000 bulls), feed centres and feed mills with ingredient storage, and feed crop production, often as one vertically integrated "field to product" complex. 63 projects in 32 countries since 1996, including 22 regions of Russia. The site is in English and Russian.

Key facts:
- Legal name: Ziv Matalon Consultant & Management Ltd. (Hebrew: זיו מטלון יעוץ וניהול בע"מ), Israeli private company no. 513845149, registered 20 June 2006. Based in Moshav Be'er Tuvia, Israel.
- Founder and CEO: Ziv Matalon. Milk quota manager under Israel's Minister of Agriculture (1999–2004); Vice Chairman of the Israel Dairy & Beef Board (1993–2006); Chairman of the Israel Cattle Breeders Association, ICBA (2007–2009); CEO and Chairman of the Be'er Tuvia agricultural cooperative (1990–2006); B.A. in Economics and Agriculture, Hebrew University Faculty of Agriculture (1986); Diploma in Management, Israel Management College (2002).
- Owns a 500-cow dairy farm in Israel (since 1982) averaging 12,000 L per cow per lactation; chairman of the board of a feed centre producing 150,000 t of TMR a year for 15,000 head (since 2018); partner and project manager at Co-Energy, waste-to-energy (since 2018).
- Company partners: Karmi Elbert, Partner, Strategy & Business Development; Eyal Ashkenazi, Partner, Food Production & Product Development.
- Recent work (2019–2026): supervision of dairy farm construction in Azerbaijan (2019–2020); projects in Tanzania, Indonesia, North Macedonia (5,000 cows); advising the Government of Albania on its dairy sector (2026).
- Largest engagements: livestock general director of the RAV Agro-Pro holding in Russia (10 farms, 15,000 head, 100,000 ha of crops, 2008–2010); partner in the Family Capital / Belousov Group integration in Russia (5,000 cows, 4 dairy plants, a meat plant, about 100 shops, 2012–2016); special dairy projects consultant to DeLaval (2006–2007); turnkey 1,000-cow dairy in Ohio, USA (2006).
- Contact (production): +972 50 530 3042 (phone and WhatsApp)
- Contact (business development and partnerships): +972 52 620 2708 (phone and WhatsApp)
- Contact page: https://zivagro.com/en/contact.html

## English pages

- [Home](https://zivagro.com/en/index.html): overview, key figures, world map of projects, services, FAQ
- [About](https://zivagro.com/en/about.html): company, certificate of incorporation, founder biography and timeline, expertise
- [Projects](https://zivagro.com/en/projects.html): full project registry with year, country, client, scope and service, plus an interactive map
- [Feed crops](https://zivagro.com/en/feed-crops.html): feed base planning, crop rotation, no-till, irrigation
- [Feed mills & storage](https://zivagro.com/en/feed-mills.html): feed centres, silos, silage bunkers, TMR
- [Dairy farms with beef production](https://zivagro.com/en/dairy-farms.html): turnkey dairy complexes, herd, milking, bull calf fattening
- [Beef farms](https://zivagro.com/en/beef-farms.html): feedlots, 65 kg to 500 kg in 13 months, slaughter and sales
- [Field to product](https://zivagro.com/en/field-to-product.html): vertical integration model and timeline
- [Dairy farm principles](https://zivagro.com/en/dairy-principles.html): 11 principles of the Israeli dairy model and engineering benchmarks
- [Contact](https://zivagro.com/en/contact.html)

## Русская версия

- [Главная](https://zivagro.com/ru/index.html)
- [О нас](https://zivagro.com/ru/about.html)
- [Проекты](https://zivagro.com/ru/projects.html)
- [Кормовые культуры](https://zivagro.com/ru/feed-crops.html)
- [Комбикормовые заводы и хранение](https://zivagro.com/ru/feed-mills.html)
- [Молочные фермы с мясным производством](https://zivagro.com/ru/dairy-farms.html)
- [Мясные фермы](https://zivagro.com/ru/beef-farms.html)
- [От поля до продукта](https://zivagro.com/ru/field-to-product.html)
- [Принципы молочной фермы](https://zivagro.com/ru/dairy-principles.html)
- [Контакты](https://zivagro.com/ru/contact.html)

## Optional

- [Full text for LLMs](https://zivagro.com/llms-full.txt): complete facts, project registry and FAQ in one file
- [Sitemap](https://zivagro.com/sitemap.xml)