Itinerary: The 35-day farming tour of the United States departs from Australia on Saturday 14th July to Singapore for a one night stopover then continues on to New York flying with Singapore Airlines. Travel across the middle of America by coach to San Francisco again picking up Singapore Airlines to Hong Kong for a two night stopover returning to Australia on Friday 17th August 2012. The tour itinerary encompasses the following American states - New York, Pennsylvania, Washington DC, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Nevada and California.
Highlights: The tour has been designed as a business trip, which may qualify as a tax-deductible expense. However, it is not all work and no play as sightseeing and shopping time has been included in New York, Washington, Chicago, Albuquerque, Las Vegas, San Francisco and Hong Kong. You will see the very best of what the United States has to offer. As with all Australian Farmers Tours you get off the well beaten tourist track visiting livestock, horticultural, cropping and experimental farms and in the state of Illinois the Chicago Mercantile Exchange as well as the John Deere factory. Tourist highlights include Niagara Falls, Grand Canyon, the Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks in the southern Sierra Nevada and travelling on the famed Route 66.
Tour Cost: The cost is fully inclusive of airfares, all breakfasts many lunches and some dinners staying at mostly 4 star hotels and utilises the services of Singapore Airlines.
Tour Leader: Bevan Jolly, Elders Stud Stock NSW, based in Dubbo led the highly successful Australian Farmers Tour to Greece & Turkey in 2010 and previous to that when he was Victorian based with VPC in Echuca then Horsham led Australian Farmers Tours to Canada & USA, New Zealand, around Australia and twice to Great Britain & Ireland and Europe. Since relocating to Dubbo Bevan toured South Africa, in a private capacity with Elders clients, visiting sheep studs as well as undertaking a European woolgrowers tour as Elders representative at the 6th World Merino Conference held in Budapest, Hungary. He has a wealth of knowledge gained as a Stock & Station Agent and is well known and liked throughout rural NSW and Victoria. Bevan will be accompanied on tour by his wife Rheta also an avid traveller.
About Us: Australian Farmers Travel, registered in Victoria and owned and operated by Andrew Curry is Australia’s leading agricultural tour operator. It commenced in 1973 as a service to primary producers and shareholders of the then major rural co-operatives Victorian Producers’ (now Elders), Westralian Farmers (now AWB Landmark), Primaries (now Elders), Gippsland and Northern, Bennetts Farmers and Farmers & Graziers. Our tours offer the chance to see how farming is practised worldwide and also provide a sense of fellowship and a chance to meet other farm families from all over Australia. Friendships formed on an Australian Farmers Tour often last a lifetime. We value the loyalty of our past tour members and appreciate the fact that many of them continue to book with us year after year. We feel this is a mark of the quality of our tours and tour leaders and we continue to strive to attain the high standards that we set ourselves. |
