Farm Stock (Scotland) Ltd was created in 1996 by marketing group Scott Country Lamb joining together with Buccleuch Farmers. The group was strengthened by Lothian Lamb and Beef joining in 1999, and the addition of Ayrshire Country Lamb and Galloway Lamb in 2005 and Caledonian Organics in 2009. The group was completed in 2017 with the addition of Border Counties Primestock and The Milk Suppliers Association creating the largest single co-operative of its type operating within the Scottish livestock industry.
Today the company structure consists of seven of the original eight members, following the dissolution of Buccleuch Farmers and its amalgamation into Galloway Lamb and Scott Country Lamb. Each of the seven member groups owns one share in Farm Stock (Scotland) Ltd and each group is in turn owned by anything between 100 and 250 individual farmers. The five groups retain their own local identity whilst gaining the economies of scale resulting from the co-operation of over 1000 farmers in terms of marketing prime stock on a deadweight basis. Store and breeding stock are traded as an additional service to producers.
Ayrshire Country Lamb Ltd was created in 1989 and has a current membership of 93 farmers located in Ayrshire and surrounding districts including Bute and many other of the Scottish islands.
Galloway Lamb Ltd has 111 farmer members and operates throughout Dumfries and Galloway.
Lothian Lamb and Beef Ltd is the largest member group of Farm Stock with a current membership of 204 farmers located in the Lothians, Fife and the Clyde Valley
Scott Country Lamb Ltd began trading in 1990 and has a membership of 273 located throughout the Scottish Borders, Berwickshire & Northumberland.
The Milk Suppliers Association (MSA) is a Co-operative made up of 131 dairy farmers based throughout South West Scotland that supply approximately 210 million litres of milk per annum to a creamery in Stranraer owned by Lactalis.
