Seaweed and animal health
A story about an Irish farming family commercializing a dried seaweed supplement that has enabled its pig herd to go antibiotic free, topped off our list of most popular news from April.
Seaweed production company, Sealac, launched a kelp supplement last month that was born out of pig farmer Martin Dempsey’s quest for materials that could reduce the use of antibiotics in the herd of 250 sows he looks after for the Costello Group.