In your field: Kate Rowell - "As ever at this time of year, the outside world has faded into the background and our lives are lived almost entirely in the lambing shed"

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 - "As ever at this time of year, the outside world has faded into the background and our lives are lived almost entirely in the lambing shed"

As ever at this time of year, the outside world has faded into the background for the past week or so and our lives are lived almost entirely in the lambing shed or trudging back and forth between it and...

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