The Kintyre peninsula has a long history of dairy farming - but its future is in the balance
THERE HAS been no further official news from Kintyre about the fate of the Campbeltown Creamery, but the rumour mill has been busy with mutterings about the imminent unveiling of a buy-out by local dairy producers.
As The Scottish Farmer went to press, neither NFU Scotland nor SAOS – both of which have been involved in the talks about the First Milk creamery's future – had anything to say on the matter, and a local producer said only that 'progress was being made', but he was bound to silence by a confidentiality agreement.
Watch this space...
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