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In your field: Kate Beavan - "The long, hard lambing season has finally finished"

Kate farms alongside her husband Jim on their farm near Abergavenny, Monmouthshire. Farming 122 hectares (300 acres), the main enterprise consists of 800 breeding ewes and cider made on-site from their orchards. She is a mum of two, runs Kate’s Country School on-farm and is the woodland creation officer for Stump Up For Trees

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In your field: Kate Beavan - "The long, hard lambing season has finally finished"

Like many of you reading this, I have been pretty fed up, so I have dug deep to find some positives for this month's article after deleting a few drafts that were a bit depressing. Lambing Here we...

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