In 2008, Fane Valley Co-Op placed the order for a new mill with
Ottevanger, the European market leader in mill design and equipment, at an eventual cost of £11.3 million. The total cost of the project, including buildings, piling and siteworks, amounted to £18.2 million. The mill was constructed on a greenfield site at Doogary, about two miles from Omagh’s town centre. It was commissioned and started production in June 2010.
In Summary In 1950, the annual output of compound animal feeds from the Scott family’s hundred-year-old former oatmeal mill was about 7,000 tons, less than one per cent of that year’s total Northern Ireland output. The UK government’s 1947 Agriculture Act was the basis on
which in 1948 the board of directors took a brave and visionary decision; this was both to enlarge the shareholders’ risk capital and to borrow an unprecedented amount of bank finance. These steps enabled the reconstruction of the mill’s plant and equipment, on the site that it had occupied since 1850. The output from the same site, in year 2000, with almost continuous updating of the mill plant in the years since 1950, was 97,000 tonnes. David Garrett, a senior member of the Scotts Feeds sales team
in 2000, the year of the takeover, has been the managing director of Fane Valley Feeds since 2010. In 2019/20, Fane Valley Feeds sold ten per cent of the total tonnage of feeds sold in that year by Northern Ireland manufacturers,
approximately tripling the annual tonnage since their takeover of Scotts Feeds in year 2000.
Fare Well, Fane Valley As a member of the fifth generation of the founding family of the Omagh mill, I should like to take this opportunity to pay tribute to the succeeding owners. Such a substantial investment of risk capital demonstrates great commercial courage on the part of the Fane Valley parent company. It also provides confirmation of their faith in the long-term prospects of the millennial year investment, in an area of activity where many other feed compounders throughout the UK and Ireland were either standing still or even withdrawing from the marketplace. What gives me equal satisfaction is that existing management and staff were retained and have continued to thrive within the new milling company. This has been an interesting progress to reflect on, and
the surviving members of the team, past and present, may feel justifiably proud of their history, both before and after the change of ownership.
Sources:
A Hundred Years a-Milling, edited by W. Maddin Scott, 1952 From Country Mill to County Millers, Walford Scott Green, 1975 The Stones that Ground the Corn, Tony Deeson et al, edited by Richard Scott, 2002
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