20% increase in Graham’s family dairy turnover

Results to March 2017 show that year-on-year sales increased by £16.8m to £100.5m in 2017 for Graham’s family dairy. This reflects the full-year impact of the Glenfield acquisition completed in 2016 and an increase in the volumes sold to an expanding customer base.

However, profit before tax was £1.3m, slightly down on the previous year. There was investment of £1.4m in new plant and machinery, while a logistics facility depot was built in Kintore.

“Our joint application for housing with Mactaggart & Mickel Homes will deliver our proposals for a new £20m+ national dairy centre,” managing director Robert Graham said.

Ministerial convergence meeting postponed

A meeting between Michael Gove and Fergus Ewing to discuss Brexit and to settle the remit, chair and timetable for the review of Scotland’s convergence share has been postponed, Farmers Journal Scotland understands.

The Defra secretary and rural economy and cabinet secretary were due to meet on 14 December but the ministers will next meet “early in the new year”, a Scottish Government spokesperson has said.