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In your field: Kate Rowell - "They have been an absolute dream – the calves just appeared with no fuss"

Kate is a fifth-generation farmer running the 750-hectare (1,853-acre) Hundleshope Farm on the Haystoun Estate, Peebles, where the family have been tenants for 150 years. She runs the hill unit with her husband Ed and their four children. She is also a vet and chair of Quality Meat Scotland

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In your field: Kate Rowell - "They have been an absolute dream – the calves just appeared with no fuss"

We are down to the last few stragglers of what seems to have been a particularly long lambing time, or maybe it just feels that way as I get older. Every joint seems to ache far more than it used to...

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