Sam Elsom of Sea Forest. Source: Sea Forest
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A Tasmanian seaweed farmer is ready to hit the market on a commercial level with methane-busting food supplements, but says the government needs to incentivise farmers to take up the product.
Across 1800 hectares of land and marine space at Triabunna on the east coast of Tasmania, Sea Forest has been scaling up production of its livestock supplement made from the Australian seaweed asparagopsis.
Feeding the red seaweed extract to livestock can slash methane emissions by up to 98%.
“We’ve been able to take what was a concept that we’ve been able to demonstrate at small scale into a large industrial operation,” Sea Forest boss Sam Elsom told AAP.
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