Alumni

International Trips - Australia & New Zealand 2010

The MAB is planning its fourth international trip with an agribusiness tour of New Zealand and Australia April 16 - May 1, 2010.

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The trip will include stops at cattle, deer and sheep farms, dairies, fruit and vegetable farms, grain and cotton farms, as well as, agricultural and food related industries. Participants will have the opportunity to spend time with local farm families during an overnight farm stay in Australia. Time will also be set aside for site seeing.

The land down under...
New Zealand is sometimes called “the world’s biggest farm”, with agriculture being the largest sector of the economy. Pastoral farming is the major land use, but there are increases in land area devoted to horticulture. Agriculture products include: wheat, barley, potatoes, fruits, vegetables, wool, beef, lamb and mutton, dairy products and fish. New Zealand is the world’s eighth largest milk producer, with about 2.2% of world production.

Agriculture industries in Australia are comprised of a wide variety of crops, horticulture, viticulture, dairy, fiber, fisheries and livestock. The beef industry is the biggest agricultural enterprise with more than 60% of Australian beef exported primarily to the United States and Japan. Despite the harsh agricultural environment susceptible to drought, dryland salinity and acidity of soils, Australia is one of world’s major exporters of agricultural products.

For more information or to be added to the interested list, contact Mary Bowen at mjbowen@ksu.edu or 785-532-4435.