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In your field - Kate Rowell: "It's taken seven years to build numbers back to where we were before the Beast from the East"

Kate Rowell 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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What a whirlwind November has been. It was always my least favourite month of the year, with cold, dark, muddy days and nothing much to look forward to except winter. However, being involved with Quality...

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