AFT commenced in 1973 as a service to primary producers and shareholders of the then major rural co-operatives Victorian Producers’ (now Elders), Westralian Farmers (Landmark), Primaries (Elders), Gippsland and Northern NSW & VIC, Bennetts Farmers SA and Farmers & Graziers NSW.

Australian Farmers overseas tours offer more than just travel as each tour is uniquely planned to provide something special, a careful blend of agricultural and horticultural visits, sightseeing and free time. Our world-wide program of tours offers you the chance to see how farming is practised in every sort of climate and condition. In addition, all our tours provide a sense of fellowship and the chance to meet other farm families from all over Australia.

Each farming tour has been designed as a business trip which may, depending on your own particular circumstances, qualify as a tax deduction expense. Your tour leader will maintain a detailed daily diary and at the conclusion of the tour send to you a report for you to submit with your income tax return. However, it is not all work and no play as each tour includes leisure and sightseeing to provide a well-rounded itinerary.

Our AFT tour leaders are a vital component of our rural tours and have good organisational abilities, friendly personalities, and, of course a great sense of humour. Their wives more often than not accompany them on tour.

Friendships formed on an Australian Farmers Tour often last a lifetime. We value the loyalty of our past tour members and appreciate the fact that many of them continue to book with us year after year. We feel this is a mark of the quality of our tours and tour leaders and we will continue to strive to attain the high standards that we set ourselves.

Over the years AFT has operated highly successful farming tours to Sri Lanka, Vietnam & Cambodia, Japan, China & Inner Mongolia, USA, South America (Chile, Argentina, Brazil & Peru), South Africa, England & Europe, Great Britain & Ireland, France, Germany, the Balkan Peninsula (8 countries), Turkey, Eastern Europe, Italy, Sicily, Malta, Sardinia & Corsica and many, many more tours to other countries.