The Country Southern USA Farming Tour 2018

Churchill Downs, home of the Kentucky Derby. Photo / Supplied

The Country host, Jamie Mackay is touring around Southern USA with a group of farmers keeping him on his toes.

Keep up with their latest antics with Jamie's photo gallery and with interviews from the show.

Check out Jamie Mackay's photo galleries below.

Image 1 of 16: Not a bad place to visit on day two of The Country's Farming Tour of the Southern States. The Space Centre Houston. Home to NASA.

Photo Gallery Two:

Image 1 of 4: The ⁦Allflex⁩ eartag has been to some pretty cool places on ⁦The Country⁩ tour of the southern states of the USA. But the Ryman Auditorium - home of the Grand Ole Opry - in Nashville takes some beating.

Photo Gallery Three:

Image 1 of 10: Room 306 at the Lorraine Motel - now the National Civil Rights Museum. Outside on the balcony Dr Martin Luther King was shot dead by James Earl Ray.

Photo Gallery Four:

Image 1 of 12: We have just discovered the best barman in the USA. Bryan Price in Natchez on the Mississippi. No wonder his tip jar is full!

Photo Gallery Five:

Image 1 of 4: Up close and personal with an alligator in a Louisiana bayou.

Photo Gallery Six:

Image 1 of 4: Texas rancher Kenneth Allan from the Timberline Ranch in south east Texas addressing the touring group in front of his prized Brahman/Hereford cattle.

Jamie enjoys the view of the mighty Mississippi whilst being serenaded by ... a recorder?

Rollin’ on the River...#Mississippi pic.twitter.com/1ejpS7vB1g

— The Country (@TheCountry) November 19, 2018

Jamie Mackay and Todd Clark:

The Country's Executive Producer Rowena Duncum caught up with Jamie Mackay and our US correspondent Todd Clark from Lexington Kentucky on the South States Farming Tour. Mackay informs Clark that he will be hosting 31 Kiwi farmers for dinner!

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Jamie Mackay in Nashville:

Jamie gives a tour update from Nashville, where he visited the National Civil Rights Museum and met rural broadcasting legend Marlin Bohling.

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Jamie Mackay in New Orleans:

Jamie Mackay updates us on his farming and sightseeing tour of southern USA. Today we find him near the mighty Mississippi, soaking up the sights of Bourbon Street.

Jamie Mackay in Texas:

Today Jamie tells Rowena and Sam about his adventures in Texas and admits he may have lost a couple of tour members.

Jamie has been catching up on the sights and sounds of the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale at Lexington, Kentucky.

Going, going, gone! For $200k at the Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale at Lexington, Kentucky. pic.twitter.com/BzAmxqUPkQ

— The Country (@TheCountry) November 11, 2018

Although he struggled to work out what was being said at this Lexington sale yard.

Some free ⁦@Skellerup⁩ Red Band leather work boots for the first one who can figure out what these cattle fetched at the Lexington sale yards?#onlyinamerica pic.twitter.com/jocksVDaNi

— The Country (@TheCountry) November 12, 2018