Kate Rowell
Job Title:
Regional Advisor - South of Scotland
Biography
Kate is a fifth generation sheep and suckler cow farmer from a hill and upland farm near Peebles.
Kate is a qualified veterinary surgeon and farmer. She worked in a small, mixed veterinary practice in the Durham Dales for 7 years and for the last 22 years has been running the family farm, along with her husband where they have a herd of 80 suckler cows as well as lowland and hill sheep flocks totalling around 1000 ewes. The business has participated in several environmental schemes.
Kate was a member of the Board of Quality Meat Scotland for 2 years before becoming its current Chair. During this time, she was also Chair of the Cattle and Sheep Standards Setting Body which oversees standards development for the QMS Quality Assurance scheme. Kate was also a member of the first Just Transition Commission in Scotland which was set up to identify key opportunities and challenges in the transition to a greener economy and to provide recommendations to Scottish Ministers on the practical and affordable steps to achieving this outcome.