IN A move that is bound to antagonise its co-op traditionalists, First Milk has appointed the controversial figure of Sean Rickard to chair its board which decides future strategy.
Mr Rickard has never been a ‘one for all, and all for one’ strategist. Indeed, his belief, until recently at least, has been that up to 80% of farmers should be allowed to go to the wall – and nothing done to save them.
That idea might find some resonance among those milking multi hundreds of cows in the souther half of Great Britain, but what it means for those in what used to be First Milk’s heartland is another matter altogether.
The upland dairy farmers of mainland Scotland and those on Arran, Bute and Kintyre can only continue to ‘guess an’ fear’!