Excursions

The Faculty arranges three NSW excursions each year and sponsors other excursions (e.g. to the Northern Territory). Students are required to undertake at least one NSW excursion prior to graduation. The Faculty arranges all local transport, food and accommodation.

Central NSW Excursion

This excursion is an excellent opportunity for seeing the Macquarie Valley and the Central West of NSW, and meeting students in the Faculty. It runs from Easter Monday until the following Thursday.

The excursion covers the Macquarie River valley from the headwaters on the high rainfall tablelands around Orange to the irrigation and semi arid grazing country of the western flood plains. The aim is to present to you a selection of the best rural enterprises in the region and to give you an opportunity to meet the people involved The trip is not all "work"- we have social dinners, and generally make sure you have plenty of opportunity to meet your colleagues.

Southern NSW Excursion

This excursion Runs in the last week of September each year. The trip starts in Sydney , runs to the Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area to Leeton and Griffith then south to Victorian Border, east to Rutherglen in Victoria and then returns to Sydney. On the way we visit examples of the extensive range of enterprises and interests farmers in southern NSW can develop, such as sheep, Alpacas, grain farming, Landcare, Aquaculture, beef feedlots and marketing, growing, processing and marketing rice and citrus. Prime lambs, poultry and eggs, modern irrigation techniques, stud merinos, potatoes, hay for export, dairying, viticulture, advanced AI for cattle and sheep and lupins for sustainable production have all been included in recent trips. We are welcome everywhere and the trip is always an invaluable learning experience and a great social occasion.

Northern NSW Excursion

This trip leaves Sydney (during O-week, late February or early March) and travels to Port Macquarie looking at Aquaculture and Forestry on the way. After overnight stop at Port Macquarie we proceed to Grafton having stops at Tea Tree Production, Blueberry and sugar cane production. Upon leaving Grafton we travel to the New England Tableland to look at National Park Management, Beef Feedlot and Beef cattle production before our overnight stop at Armidale. Leaving Armidale we proceed along the Tablelands to look at fine wool production , land care and grain production on Liverpool Plains finishing at Quirindi. On the final day we look at Lucerne production before finishing with grape production in Hunter Valley
The trip then returns to Sydney.