Born in 1946 and brought up in Cupar, Fife, I was educated at the local school - 
Banff & Buchan MSP Stewart Stevenson highlighted the struggle faced today by dairy farmers at the recent SNP Conference in Glasgow.
Speaking to a resolution at the Conference, Mr Stevenson backed NFU Scotland's campaign for a fair deal for dairy farmers against the unfair pricing of milk by the big supermarkets.
The resolution was passed unanimously by Conference delegates in a show of support for the Scotland's dairy sector.
Mr Stevenson said:
"Agriculture is one of the most essential industries in the rural parts of my constituency, and I am very concerned at the figures which the NFU produced to demonstrate the effect unfair pricing of milk has had on dairy farmers. Over the last six years, one in four Scottish dairy farmers have gone out of business due to the present situation, and this scenario will only degenerate if supermarkets do not alter their present policies.
"I hope that by bringing their campaign to the Scottish Parliament, the NFU will force supermarkets to sit up and take notice, in order to prevent the further decline of Scotland's dairy farming industry and, indeed, to preserve it's long-term future."
Karen Adam is now the MSP for Banffshire and Buchan Coast
