Tour Leader Graham Engeman has had a diverse background with school teaching, policing, real estate, auctioneering and local government. Graham was President of the well regarded Gympie District Show Society and at one time was Landmark’s Gympie Livestock Manager. He now runs a Brangus Stud, near Gympie with genetics from the USA and Australia. The Engeman family also operate Cattle Breeding Services supplying liquid nitrogen, semen and breeding program services for the Wide Bay and Burnett regions of Queensland. In 2014 Graham and his wife Margaret led the highly successful China and Inner Mongolia Farming Tour; in 2017 the 22-Day Australian Farmers Japan Tour and in 2023 they led the 32-Day Canada Farming Tour & Alaska Cruise. In 2026 Graham and Margaret will be leading the 20-Day Canada Farming Tour with an optional cruise to Alaska and in 2027 the 26-Day Farming Tour of Texas.

Tour Leader Dale Price runs a stud property, Majardah at Glencoe, just west of Mount Gambier where he breeds Poll Dorset and White Suffolk rams and operates a separate 4,000 commercial sheep enterprise while Angus cattle are used for pasture management. Dale and his wife Ruth were tour members of Australian Farmers Tours to South America in 2011, Eastern Europe in 2013 and Japan in 2014. In 2018 and again in 2023 they led Great Britain & Ireland Farming Tours as well as the inaugural 18-day Sri Lanka Farming Tour in 2019. In 2024 Dale and Ruth led the 22-day Canada Farming Tour and Alaska Cruise. In 2025 Dale & Ruth Price led both the Japan and Eastern Canada & USA Farming Tours and in 2026 the 24-day Farming Tour of Italy. They have previously led three highly successful farming tours of northern Indian and in 2027 they will be leading a 25-day Farming Tour of India.

Tour Leader Don Howard has farmed in Camperdown in the southwest of Victoria for over 40 years. He started a Travel Tower Contracting business and ran that for 16 years in conjunction with his dairy and beef farms that he has recently sold. In his early 40’s he was elected to the Murray Goulburn Co-operative Board of Directors where he spent 16 years as a member representing all Murray Goulburn dairy farmers. Whilst there he led a very successful 28-day farm study tour to the east coast of Canada and the USA. He retired from Murray Goulburn some time ago and since then Don and his wife Kerrie have enjoyed undertaking three Australian Farmers Tours to China & Mongolia as well as Spain, Morocco and Portugal and a 29-day Central European Farming Tour. In 2019 they led the highly acclaimed Australian Farmers Balkan Peninsula Farming Tour to Greece, Macedonia, Albania, Montenegro, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina and Slovenia and in 2024, when they were both in their very early 60’s, the 26-day Mediterranean Islands Tour to Malta, Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica and Italy. In 2026 Don and Kerrie led the 26-day Turkey and Bulgaria Farming Tour and in 2027 they will be leading the September 2027 Farming Tour of Japan.