In Your Field: Kate Rowell - "We all have our fingers crossed for a better August to get back on track"

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 - "We all have our fingers crossed for a better August to get back on track"

Dodging the rain during this particularly disappointing summer has at least meant that the less popular inside jobs – some of which have been waiting for months, if not years – have moved further up the...

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