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In your field: Kate Rowell 鈥� "Jackdaws are an absolute pain in the neck with their attempts to build nests in the most ridiculous places around the farm"

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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As usual the week before lambing began was one of the longest of the year, with some premature lambs you know are unlikely to survive (although you always try), a couple of ewes with twin lamb disease...

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