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In your field: Kate Rowell - "I am listening out for the cuckoo every day"

Kate is a fifth-generation farmer running the 750-hectare (1,853-acre) Hundleshope 51AVÊÓÆµon 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 - "I am listening out for the cuckoo every day"

I am writing this during a quick lunch break as lambing here is in full swing and I know that if I leave it until the evening I will be nodding off over the keyboard. Weather As we trudge through...

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