The 2012 MidWest Tour

About the Tour

The Plant Agriculture Field Trip course, which is better known around campus as the Midwest Tour, is a field study course designed to increase the student's breadth of knowledge of agricultural production and agri-business in North America. Students in the course tour a selected area of the midwest United States prior to the fall semester, visiting cash crop and livestock farms, supporting industries (e.g. processing, manufacturing) and markets (e.g. elevators, stockyards)

If you came across this site by chance, you may be interested in checking out our roots at the University of Guelph, the Ontario Agriculture College and the Department of Plant Agriculture.

Professor Clarence Swanton
Department of Plant Agriculture
University of Guelph

Travel Log

Each day when on tour, the students will add daily logs to this site so that you can follow their progress. To give you an idea of the 2012 tour, the toure will closely follow the itinerary listing on the rightside panel of this page. Check back in late August, 2012 when the tour will begin.

 

Participate In The Next Midwest Tour

University of Guelph undergraduate and graduate students, may participate in the Midwest tour. Please visit the course page for the details for each degree level.

Departure date: Sunday August 26, 2012

Day 1	Depart Guelph for Chicago, Illinois
Day 2	Chicago, Spring Valley and Peoria, Illinois
Day 3	Peoria, Illinois; Wellman and Des Moines, Iowa
Day 4	Ankeny and Anita, Iowa; Lincoln, Nebraska
Day 5	York and Norfolk, Nebraska
Day 6	Norfolk, Bartlett and Ogallala, Nebraska
Day 7	Fort Morgan and Denver, Colorado
Day 8	Denver, Colorado
Day 9	Brewster and Garden City, Kansas
Day 10	Garden City, Kansas; Joplin Missouri
Day 11	Harviell and Poplar Bluff, Missouri
Day 12	Poplar Bluff, Sikeston, Missouri; Effingham, Illinois
Day 13	Clay City, Elwood and Ft. Wayne, Indiana
Day 14	Return to Guelph