Christine Broom on Milk Quotas and Sheep

I had already bought a few sheep in 1984 when the milk quotas came in which crucified the small farmers, didn’t really hurt the big ones because they could plough up their land, get rid of some of their cows and grow crops.

But when you’ve only got a small acreage you’re limited as what you can do, so the small farmers suffered. So I decided when the quotas came in we would buy a few sheep.