SDSU Agricultural Study Tour to New Zealand – May 2019

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SDSU Agricultural Study Tour to New Zealand – May 2019


Sunday, May 5th - Leave for New Zealand

                        Students’ flights leave from Sioux Falls and Minneapolis

Tuesday, May 7th - Arrive Auckland                                                                                                

2:35 pm
Arrive New Zealand
Day’s activities:

·         Enjoy an orientation tour of Auckland en route to hotel

·         Dinner at the Sky Tower (Tallest freestanding building in the Southern Hemisphere)


Wednesday, May 8th - Auckland – Hamilton                                                                                            

8:00 am
Breakfast
Day’s activities:

·         Balle Bros – vegetables

·         Gallagher Company


Thursday, May 9th - Hamilton - Rotorua                                                                                        

8:30 am
Depart hotel
Day’s activities:

·        Farm merchandise stores

·        Grant Wills and Karen Preston’s dairy farm

·        Hobbiton

·        Skyline Gondola – Skyline Restaurant


Friday, May 10th - Rotorua                                                                                                                
8:30 am
Depart hotel
Day’s activities:

·         Agrodome

·         Te Puia – the Whakarewarewa Thermal Reserve and the Maori Arts and Crafts Institute

·         Tumunui Maori Lands Trust

·         Enjoy a Maori Hangi


Saturday, May 11th - Rotorua – Napier                                                                                           

7:45 am
Depart hotel
Day’s activities:

·         Kairuru Polled Hereford Stud

·         Huka Falls

·         Tour the Heretaunga Plains – apple and kiwifruit orchard

·         Dinner at Mission Estate Winery


Sunday, May 12th - Hastings – Marton                                                                                            

8:15 am
Depart hotel
Day’s activities:

·         Hastings Farmers Market

·         Wagyu cattle farm

·         Meet farmstay hosts


Monday, May 13th - Marton – Wellington - Ashburton                                                                

10:00 am
Students return from farmstays
Day’s Activities:

·         Te Papa Museum

·         Beef + Lamb New Zealand

·         Good-bye North Island – Hello South Island (flight from Wellington to Christchurch)


Tuesday, May 14th – Ashburton
                                                                                                                                                                
7:30 am
Breakfast
Day’s activities:

·         Ted & Sue Rollinson’s dairy farm

·         Arable farm visit






Wednesday, May 15th - Ashburton – Alexandra                                                                           

8:00 am
Depart hotel
Day’s activities:

·         Tin Shed

·         Haldon Station

·         Tekapo


Thursday, May 16th - Alexandra – Te Anau                                                                                    

7:30 am
Breakfast
Day’s activities:

·         Earnscleugh Station

·         Queenstown

Friday, May 17th - Te Anau                                                                                                                

7:30 am
Breakfast
Day’s activity:

·         Catamaran cruise on the Doubtful Sound – hoping to see dolphins, Fiordland Crested penguins and beautiful alpine scenery

Saturday 18 May Te Anau – Millers Flat                                                                                         

7:00 am
Breakfast
Day’s activities:

·         Mt. Linton station

·         Meet farmstay host


Sunday, May 19th - Millers Flat - Oamaru                                                                                       

10:00 am
Students return from farmstays
Day’s activities:

·         Avenel Station

·         Moeraki Boulders

·         Blue Penguins




Monday, May 20th - Oamaru - Christchurch                                                                                   

8:30 am
Depart hotel
Day’s activities:

·         Dairy Farm

·         Cropping farm

·         Dinner at Pedal Pushers

Tuesday, May 21st - Christchurch – Depart

3:30 am
Transfer to Christchurch International Airport
5:03 pm
Arrive Minneapolis
                                                                                                                                                                



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