ISSUE FOCUS FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE May 2022 35 ABOUT THE SEAWEED COMPANY The Seaweed Company was founded in 2018 and produces its own seaweeds in Ireland, Morocco, India and The Netherlands. We are active throughout the entire cultivation process from seeding and system deployment to harvesting and processing. The recent investment of Colruyt Group enables us to scale up fast to make real impact. We focus on marketing high-quality seaweed solutions for animal feed, agriculture - in the form of biostimulants - and human food. We implement regenerative, CO2-reducing concepts, products, and applications all over the globe that deliver impact on many areas. Our goal is to fully capture the value of seaweed. Everything we do is economically inclusive, socially just and environmentally restorative. Seaweed has a positive effect on many challenges we face today like global warming, acidification of our oceans, diseases and inequality. After successful tests with agricultural entrepreneurs last year, several seaweed products have been marketed in the Blue Farming and Blue Health concepts WHAT DOES THE CONCEPT “BLUE FARMING” STAND FOR? As one of the European front runners in seaweed applications, The Seaweed Company offers sustainable seaweed based solutions to support agricultural and livestock farmers. Built on the core belief of The Seaweed Company to use the “blue” power of the sea to support agricultural activities on land, we have named this approach “Blue Farming”. The transition to a more plant-based diet and to more regenerative practices is progressing quickly in industrialized countries and that will fuel the Blue Farming transition even faster. SO WHAT IS SO SPECIAL ABOUT OUR SEAWEED BLENDS? Our livestock feed solutions are proprietary formulas based on uniquely selected and balanced sets of species of brown, green and red marine macro algae. As each type of seaweed brings its specific different bioactive compounds, combinations of seaweed enhances synergistic effects. And by using blends we mitigate potential negative consequences that using seaweed might encounter (e.g. heavy metals, iodine levels). Based on the specific animal needs and challenges we carefully select the right species to capitalize on the performance ingredients in the different seaweeds. Applying the seaweed blends in the animal’s diets, valuable benefits for the animals and the farmers are seen. The seaweed blends can be easily supplemented to the existing animal feed solutions in either dried or liquid form. And because of our vertically integrated nature with our own seaweed farms, The Seaweed Company can reliably deliver traceable and high-quality seaweed materials that fit the requirements and needs of today’s farmer. A TSC seaweed farm in Ireland
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