In your field: Kate Rowell - "We've just been away on honeymoon – only 25 years after the wedding"

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've just been away on honeymoon – only 25 years after the wedding"

I turned over the calendar to October the other day and really couldn't believe how fast the year has gone. Livestock Maybe it's because our summer was almost non-existent, but it really seems like...

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