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In your field - Kate Rowell: "On a truly mixed farm like ours... the strength is adapting each year"

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: "On a truly mixed farm like ours... the strength is adapting each year"

Peeblesshire is very firmly in the Less Favoured Area category of land in Scotland and is apparently the county with the highest average height above sea level (because other areas with higher hills also...

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