In your field: Kate Rowell - Succession Planning: "Fair is not always the same as equal, which might well become our mantra"

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 - Succession Planning: "Fair is not always the same as equal, which might well become our mantra"

I had a lovely Mother's Day brunch at a local farm shop and cafe the other day and all six of us were together, something which happens infrequently now all the kids have flown the nest. Dad was invited...

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