An unusual tour group is planning a visit to Fort Dodge and Webster County later in October. A group of 30 farmers and their families from Sweden are visiting friends and relatives in Iowa to help out with the local corn and soybean harvest work.Having finished their own harvesting back home in Sweden, where a more Northerly climate means an earlier harvest than is typical in Iowa, the Swedish visitors are also coming to learn more about Midwestern US farm practice, facilities and equipment, and do some sightseeing as well.The group flies to and from Chicago from Sweden, enjoys some city sight-seeing, fine dining and shopping time on famed North Michigan Avenue, before journeying across Illinois and Iowa by luxury motor coach.While in Iowa they'll visit John Deere and Bauer Built Manufacturing plants in Paton, see the newly-opened John Wayne Museum and tour the historic covered bridges of Madison County in Winterset, and visit a Des Moines shopping mall.A highlight of the tour will be two days of farming on the Ron Hanson farm near Somers. Here, the visitors will help bring in the harvest and enjoy typical Iowan hospitality, food and friendship.A catered farewell dinner will be held at the historic Smeltzer House in Fort Dodge.The tour has been planned, packaged and operated by Legacy Tour & Travel, Fort Dodge.

An unusual tour group is planning a visit to Fort Dodge and Webster County later in October. A group of 30 farmers and their families from Sweden are visiting friends and relatives in Iowa to help out with the local corn and soybean harvest work.



Having finished their own harvesting back home in Sweden, where a more Northerly climate means an earlier harvest than is typical in Iowa, the Swedish visitors are also coming to learn more about Midwestern US farm practice, facilities and equipment, and do some sightseeing as well.


The group flies to and from Chicago from Sweden, enjoys some city sight-seeing, fine dining and shopping time on famed North Michigan Avenue, before journeying across Illinois and Iowa by luxury motor coach.



While in Iowa they'll visit John Deere and Bauer Built Manufacturing plants in Paton, see the newly-opened John Wayne Museum and tour the historic covered bridges of Madison County in Winterset, and visit a Des Moines shopping mall.



A highlight of the tour will be two days of farming on the Ron Hanson farm near Somers. Here, the visitors will help bring in the harvest and enjoy typical Iowan hospitality, food and friendship.



A catered farewell dinner will be held at the historic Smeltzer House in Fort Dodge.



The tour has been planned, packaged and operated by Legacy Tour & Travel, Fort Dodge.

