Forty students from Texas A and M University were touring Scotland over past two weeks, visiting farming enterprises up and down the country.
Mainly made up of animal science students, they were the third group from the university to visit the UK and Ireland, led by Field Farm Tours. Their Scottish journey took them to Craigies Farm, near Edinburgh; Meldrum Dairy, at Blairdrummond; the McEwans' sheep, cattle and Pumpkin enterprise at Arnprior; Rowan Marshall’s fruit farm, in Alyth; Rothiemurchus Estate; Ballindalloch Aberdeen-Angus herd and, as the picture shows, a sunny visit to Clachan hill farm, near Oban.
The Aonach Mor Gondola, Urquhart Castle, Dumfries Show, Borderway Market and the obligatory whisky tasting, rounded off a great week in Scotland for the students, before travelling through England and onto Southern Ireland.
The group was chosen from more than 80 applicants by their attending professor, Shaun Ramsey, who has led the group since their first visit in 2016.
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