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In your field: Kate Rowell - "They have been an absolute dream – the calves just appeared with no fuss"

We are down to the last few stragglers of what seems to have been a particularly long lambing time, or maybe it just feels that way as I get older. Every joint seems to ache far more than it used to...

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