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Resilience, the ability to bounce back from difficult conditions is crucial in arable crop production, due to the unpredictable nature of weather and growing seasons.  The past two seasons have highlighted the variability we face, emphasising the need for adaptable, robust, dependable varieties.  Harnessing the genetic strengths and resilience of new varieties is a key…

Gemma Parke, Winner of Farm SQP of the Year, is Manager at Fane Valley Stores in Claudy, County Londonderry. She has been an SQP for two years, although she was a veterinary nurse for 15 years. Gemma joined Fane Valley Stores in 2019 as a part-time member of the team, and then took on the…

The recent downturn in weather has seen many cattle being housed in the past few weeks and transitioned onto a finishing diet. The finishing phase relies on system efficiency to maximise liveweight gains. Based on this, regular forage analysis should be carried out to form the basis of any diet and to tailor the concentrate…

Bovine respiratory disease (BRD) costs the UK industry £50 million per year with an average treatment cost reaching a whopping £80 per animal. It comes as no surprise that it is worth investing both time and money into preventing BRD and pneumonia from hitting your herd at housing. What are the main culprits? According to…

Managing what you can control is essential when growing crops and with many variables including the weather influencing grain yield and quality, variety selection is of paramount importance as the number one risk reducer. Stephen Bell, Technical Support Manager, emphasised that Certified seed of a low-risk variety paired with a seed treatment tailored to the…

After a difficult grass growing season, we are now seeing good grass growth and thoughts turn to autumn reseeding. Many swards were damaged during the difficult spring and now provides an opportunity to correct the damage and introduce new grass to your fields by reseeding. Perennial ryegrass is the foundation of our grassland systems in…

With the range in drilling dates of winter cereal crops through autumn of 2023 extending into early 2024 crops are at various stages of ripeness and on mixed farms attention turns to options of how to get the very best value from home grown cereals especially this season where forage could be in short supply. …

Fane Valley continue to support Antrim Agricultural Show which is set to take place this year on Saturday 27th July at the beautiful location of Shanes Castle, Antrim. The Co. Antrim Show is one of the longest running and most highly regarded of Northern Ireland’s regional agricultural shows.  It offers a showcase of country life,…

Fane Valley is proud to continue its support to Clogher Valley Agricultural Show, now celebrating their 104th year and the progressive agri co-operative is excited to sponsor several classes across the beef, dairy and sheep livestock categories including, the Hereford National Show, Dexter Classes, Holstein Classes, Dairy Cow Championship, Overall Dairy Champion, Sheep Young Handlers,…