In your field: Kate Rowell - 'Gathering is like looking for needles in haystacks'

Or to be more accurate, it wasn’t the shearing that was the biggest job – it was gathering them all first.

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In your field: Kate Rowell - 'Gathering is like looking for needles in haystacks'

Or to be more accurate, it wasn't the shearing that was the biggest job - it was gathering them all first. Our hill extends to around 526 hectares (1,300 acres) on paper (but I'm pretty sure if you...

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