Barley pioneer Oliver Griffin dies aged 84
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Oliver T Griffin, who died on April 6, aged 84, played a leading role in the remarkable expansion of barley cultivation in Scotland.
The switch from oats to higher-value malting barley, which started more than 50 years ago transformed the profitability of Scottish arable farming.
Oliver was one of the four founders of Moray Firth Maltings, now Bairds; indeed it was his brain-child, said his former colleague Hugo Page Croft. He went on to develop malting plants in Arbroath and Inverness.
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