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Post by Jolly on Apr 21, 2022 21:11:29 GMT
My nephew got married last fall. His wife is a farm girl, raised on a pretty big farm with multiple locations, raising mostly sugar cane and soybeans. She does a lot of videography work for the ag business community. My nephew is an ag economist, like his dad, starts his new job with the USDA in about a month. His dad is the VP of Farm Bureau in Louisiana and sits on multiple farm boards, along with doing a bit of lobbying on farm issues.The
Needless to say, they know a lot of farmers.
Nephew's wife went to an ag expo a couple of weeks ago, trying to get a new business off of the ground: Farm tours. Shooting to start during harvest season, she wants to take people on tours of working farms...Cane, cotton, rice, etc., showing people how things are grown and harvested. The tours will be three-four days, ending with a farm to table feast.
Reckon people would be interested in such?
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Post by BrewDaddy on Apr 21, 2022 21:36:19 GMT
3-4 days sounds like a bit much....
bd
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Post by fixitguy on Apr 21, 2022 23:39:04 GMT
They have local farm-city days around here.
The local or region area farm city days, are pretty big. Besides a farm tour, reginal food vendors, tractor dealerships and other types of farm related businesses set up display's and Etc.
I know the local one here had Culvers ice cream (Wisconsin based fast food chain) and maple syrup, honey etc. from local businesses last year. They have a one-day free breakfast using the local products.
The giant statewide dairy expo is the equivalent of a state fair, just farm based.
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Post by themotherhen on Apr 22, 2022 5:54:31 GMT
Jolly, I agree that 3-4 days may be too long for most people, although personally I would love it! If the farms were close together I could see touring one farm in the morning and another after lunch.
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Post by solargeek on Apr 22, 2022 11:09:32 GMT
Probably too long but just type in the search
“Wisconsin farm tours” to Google to see almost 50 different farm tours for comparison
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Post by David! on Apr 25, 2022 12:33:31 GMT
When I have out of staters visiting, we often stop in and visit cane farms and rice farms and crawfish farms. People really are interested in all of that. Growing up around all of that I think I just take it for granted. Visitors are fascinated. I have never toured a catfish farm in Mississippi and need to do that. The tours should be a success as others have proven over the years.
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Post by joebill on May 1, 2022 10:24:00 GMT
I think it is largely a matter of marketing. Need to target the right crowd, and right now the RIGHT crowd is pretty dang big! Imagine how many folks are interested in moving to the country and making a living from the soil.....BUT!...at the same time, banish from your mind how many could ever make a go of it!  .....Joe |
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Post by Jolly on May 21, 2022 22:50:35 GMT
Talked to nephew's wife yesterday. Two long-weekend tours are already booked for this fall. First one will be featuring Little Eva Plantation and their cattle and pecan operation. Second tour will feature Frogmore Plantation and their cotton production/gin operation. Both tours also include side stops and accommodations. Little Eva will probably hub out of Natchitoches and Frogmore will hub out of Natchez.
Since the gal's daddy runs a pretty big cane operation, I'm thinking something to do with sugar cane will be her late fall tour, probably hubbing out of Baton Rouge or St. Francisville.
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.....Joe