In your field - Kate Rowell: "We're looking at drones to help gather the hill sheep which could mean a bit less stress for us all and slow the wear and tear on my knees"

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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24 August 2025 • 3 min read

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In your field - Amy Wilkinson: "I could tell you all about the traumatic ordeal but the last thing you need is to hear how hard the job is, so I am sticking to the good stuff"

Amy works on her family’s tenanted farm at Halsall, Lancashire. Working mainly with her dad, Amy farms 285 hectares (704 acres) of arable crops and 550 beef cross cattle which are all reared through to finishing. You can follow her on Instagram @amygingewilkinson

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In your field - Dan Hawes: "It's a fine balance between being too dry and stressing the plant, and being too wet, risking poor growing conditions"

Dan Hawes grew up on an arable farm in Suffolk and now produces strawberry and raspberry plants for the UK fruit market with Blaise Plants, sister company to Hugh Lowe Farms, Kent. The business grows outside, under tunnels and in glasshouses and produces more than four million plants a year. The arable side includes environmental schemes, with a mix of wheat, oilseed rape, beans and barley crops

Dan Hawes

17 August 2025 • 3 min read

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In your field - Alan Carter: "I am pleased to say that we had a clear TB test. I can't remember the last time that happened"

Alan Carter farms in partnership with his parents, Paul and Christine, on a 162 hectare (400-acre), 400-cow dairy unit at Constantine, Cornwall, with 130 milking cows, supplying Saputo. Alan, also a Parish Councillor, and his wife Sarah, have two children, Ross and Dana

Alan Carter

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In your field - Kate Rowell: "We're looking at drones to help gather the hill sheep which could mean a bit less stress for us all and slow the wear and tear on my knees"

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're looking at drones to help gather the hill sheep which could mean a bit less stress for us all and slow the wear and tear on my knees"

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 - Amy Wilkinson: "I could tell you all about the traumatic ordeal but the last thing you need is to hear how hard the job is, so I am sticking to the good stuff"

In your field - Dan Hawes: "It's a fine balance between being too dry and stressing the plant, and being too wet, risking poor growing conditions"

In your field - Alan Carter: "I am pleased to say that we had a clear TB test. I can't remember the last time that happened"