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In your field: Nicola Wordie – "No matter how much you plan or prepare, farming has a way of reminding you who's really in control"

Nicola is a third-generation farmer from Aberdeenshire. Alongside her dad, George, she farms 560 hectares (1,400 acres) with 240 Simmental-cross suckler cows and 1,000 Scotch Mule ewes and a small acreage of spring barley, forage rape and neeps to feed the livestock. She is also known as @livestock_farmher on social media where she gives her view of farming life

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Nicola Wordie

There's a certain satisfaction that comes with the end of lambing. That moment you finally stop and realise just how much you've been running on adrenaline. But if I'm honest, this year I found that...

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