![Landmark's Joel Fleming (second from left) greets the US farmers visiting the Tamworth Regional Livestock Exchange. Landmark's Joel Fleming (second from left) greets the US farmers visiting the Tamworth Regional Livestock Exchange.](/images/transform/v1/crop/frm/silverstone-agfeed/2057214.jpg/r0_0_1024_678_w1200_h678_fmax.jpg)
THE Tamworth Regional Livestock Exchange had some international flavour at its prime cattle sale on Monday when it hosted visitors touring the Australian farming industry.
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The group of 38 American and Canadian farmers and two guides, visited the Pursehouse family's Breeza Station on the Liverpool Plains at the weekend, and after taking in the Tamworth Saleyards complex visited "Yalgoo" at Walcha and the White family's Eastern Plains Angus stud at Guyra.
The group will visit feedlots and cropping operations on the Darling Downs in Queensland before flying to Cairns.
This is the third annual trip organised by Quadrant Australia and Max Armstrong, founder and host of US television show This Week In Agribusiness, part of the Farm Progress company in the US.
Texan graziers Ralph and Elizabeth Koopmann, grow crops and run Brangus cattle, and said they were finding Australia fascinating.
"I've noticed a lot of Australia is just like Texas, mostly because it's so dry at the moment," Mr Koopmann said.
"We're running a lot more Bos indicus cattle in the US as well."
Illinois farmer Ron Aupperle, who grows corn, soybeans and wheat, said he found the set-up at Breeza Station impressive.
"In our area we don't irrigate - we don't have the groundwater for it and the ground's not really flat enough," he said.
"So that was quite a system they had out there, I was very impressed.
"We don't have any livestock so the saleyards were a new experience for me.
"What I'm having trouble with though is the metric system; trying to convert everything to understand the differences or similarities between Australian and American productions."