In your field: Kate Rowell - "Spring 2025 will most definitely be remembered as one of the good ones"

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 - "Spring 2025 will most definitely be remembered as one of the good ones"

What a spring. It feels like Mother Nature looked at the past few years and decided we deserved a break for once and lambing was a pleasant stroll rather than an endurance race. I'm sure everyone else...

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