Bryce Cunningham never set out to be a farmer. During childhood visits to his grandparents’ dairy farm in East Ayrshire, where they’d lived and worked since 1948, he always enjoyed a glass of milk straight from the cow. But he had “no interest whatsoever” in taking on the farm one day. So instead of following in his grandfather’s (and father’s) footsteps, he became a technician for Mercedes-Benz, spent 10 “very enjoyable” years with the company, and fully expected to remain there – until a family emergency changed the course of his life.
His father, grandfather and grandmother – the three partners in the family dairy business – all became very ill. When Cunningham returned home to help out, “I fell in love with…