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In your field: Kate Rowell - "Cows are wintering well despite the weather"

Kate Rowell is a fifthgeneration farmer running the 750ha (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 - "Cows are wintering well despite the weather"

I am sitting writing this with a gale blowing and rain lashing down outside for what seems like the hundredth time this winter. The whole country has been battered over and over again. We are all...

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