Working together to reduce Methane Emissions in livestock with Asparagopsis

Our collaboration with Greener Grazing brings together their expertise in scalable ocean-based farming of Asparagopsis taxiformis and Hortimare’s specialised knowledge in seaweed breeding and hatchery operations. Together, they are working to enhance seedling production and optimise cultivation techniques that will support global efforts to combat climate change through innovative seaweed-based solutions.

To date, the collaboration has achieved numerous breakthroughs in Asparagopsis taxiformis strain selection and cultivation, creating a unique platform to manage the environmental and biological triggers to produce spores allowing ropes to be seeded for ocean-based aquaculture. We will explain more of the strain collection, seeding techniques and hatchery protocols below.

We are grateful for the continuous exchange of knowledge, skills, and even personnel between the two teams. In addition to three full-time researchers based in The Netherlands, one of our team members has been based in Vietnam for the past two years, working side by side with the team at Australis Aquaculture to further support the biological research and protocol development for large scale operations.