In your field: Kate Rowell - 'It cost us £1,200 to shear our sheep and the wool was just worth £218'

I was incredibly lucky recently to be asked to attend the British Farming Awards as the ’plus one’ of my good friend Sheena Horner who was being recognised as the Farmers Guardian Farming Hero for 2021 (she had invited her husband first but he unfortunately couldn’t make it).

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In your field: Kate Rowell - 'It cost us £1,200 to shear our sheep and the wool was just worth £218'

I was incredibly lucky recently to be asked to attend the British Farming Awards as the 'plus one' of my good friend Sheena Horner who was being recognised as the Farmers Guardian Farming Hero for 2021...

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