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In your field: Kate Rowell - "It's the highlight of my year to head up to the top of Hundleshope Heights to gather sheep on a beautiful summer's day"

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 - "It's the highlight of my year to head up to the top of Hundleshope Heights to gather sheep on a beautiful summer's day"

Gathering the 350 ewes on our 1,600-acre hill is a difficult job at the best of times, but the July gather for clipping is always the worst of the lot. For a start there are twice (or hopefully more)...

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