Wiseman's tanker called at The Haughs, Birse, for the last time on Monday night after farmer, 38-year-old David Winton and his wife, Jane – who is the new secretary of Banchory Show - completed the evening milking to bring an end to 64 years of dairying on the farm.
"It's been a hard decision and we've had a few tears and arguments before deciding to quit dairying which has been the family's livelihood for three generations," said Mr Winton.
"But we really had little choice as dairying on our scale simply is not profitable at current low prices which have been driven down by supermarkets in recent years. We're getting 6p a litre less for our milk today than we were 10 years ago and we all know how costs have gone up in the meantime.
"We either had to invest £300,000 - £400,000 to upgrade and expand our operation – or get out. Committing ourselves to such a large investment on borrowed money with milk prices as they are would have been commercial suicide so we have decided to get out.
"It really hit home on Monday when I took the oldest cow in the herd down to the slaughterhouse at Brechin. She was a good cow, now 15 or 16 years old, and had produced a lot of milk for us over the years. I was sad to see her go."
The 100-strong pedigree herd was founded by Mr Winton's grandfather in 1943 and David has been running the farm himself as a tenant of Dunecht Estate since his father's death in 2002.
He now plans to rear beef cattle on the 150-acre farm and is looking for a job to supplement his income.
"We will continue milking a few older cows, with the milk being fed to calves, until they are dried off and sold," said Mr Winton. "We will now concentrate on rearing calves and selling beef heifers with calves at foot."
It is estimated that farmers are quitting dairying at the rate of seven a day in the UK because of the low ex-farm price of milk. Farmers are being paid less than 20p a litre compared with a retail price of 50-60p a litre.