Tasmania’s Ashgrove Eco-Milk™ is a world first in climate-friendly Milk – partnering with SeaForest’s SeaFeed for less cow burps & less C02.
To cut methane emissions for its new line of full cream milk, Ashgrove is feeding one of its dairy herds a supplement called SeaFeed- that interacts with enzymes in the cows’ digestive system, so they burp less and emit less carbon.
Methane has about 28 times the warming impact of carbon dioxide, and agriculture accounts for about 15 per cent of global emissions.
Image: Ashgrove
It’s derived from asparagopsis, a red seaweed native to Tasmania and farmed by Sea Forest at Triabunna on the state’s east coast. Ashgrove is feeding the supplement, while the cows are being milked in the dairy. This is a world-first in terms of a low-emissions milk offering to consumers. They claim that as they increase tehir supply to industry, so too will the costs come down significantly.
They have the capacity to feed about four million head of livestock, and feeding less than 100,000 at the moment.
By applying such a solution to 15 per cent of the world’s cattle population, it could reduce three gigatonnes of emissions globally.
Sea Forest chief executive officer Sam Elsom has over 15 years experience in sustainability. The seaweed solution business is now building, commencing from a tiny town of Triabunna Tasmania in 2019 – and now on the map globally, winning many international awards.
Sea Forest CEO Sam Elsom: By feeding livestock a small daily dose of an asparagopsis extract, farmers can help drastically reduce methane emissions.
Biologist Lesley Hughes, a member of the Climate Council, says “there are about 1.5 billion cows in the world, and about 1.1 billion sheep. That’s an enormous amount of methane going into the atmosphere”.
“Methane has always played second fiddle to carbon dioxide in discussions about global warming. But that fiddle is getting noisier because the concentration of methane in the atmosphere is accelerating faster than the concentration of CO2.”
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