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In your field: Kate Rowell - "Huge respect to all those farming in remote areas and thank you for welcoming us soft mainlanders when we visit"

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 - "Huge respect to all those farming in remote areas and thank you for welcoming us soft mainlanders when we visit"

What an amazing spring we've had, with the rain coming at just the right time for us, although I know some farms were dry for just a bit too long. Both grass and spring barley are shooting up now, the...

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