Agricultural Tour

AGRICULTURE TOUR

Red Deer County proudly hosts an Ag Tour each year, with a chartered bus tour around the County to view local farming operations. The Tour is a unique opportunity to learn about agriculture in our community, and to speak to farmers directly. 

For the 2019 Ag Tour, attendees visited four local operations:

RAINBOW COLONY This colony features crops on 7000 acres, 500 sows, 100 dairy cows with robotic milking, cow/calf operation with 350 cows, as well as chickens and eggs raised for their own use. You can find their garden produce at Olds and Pine Lake farmer's markets.
	WILLOW BUTTE This is a 4th generation mixed farm with 100 acres of crop, 40 cow/calf as well as a custom foaling and breeding operation. www.twowillowsequine.com
LAWRENCE PASTURE Exciting talks on our beef industry were presented by Peter Lawrence, Doug Sawyer as well as Kelly Scott-Fraser.  www.albertabeef.org
	CRAIG FARM This family operation harvests 3000 acres of wheat, barley, canola, peas and fababeans.  www.albertabarley.com  www.albertapulse.com  www.albertacanola.com

Thank you to all our 2019 Hosts for making the 2019 Ag Tour a successful and educational event for all! 

Want to learn about the 2018 Ag Tour? Check out this video on the event: