A new industry using seaweed to reduce livestock’s carbon emissions and a plant-based meat producer are award-winners in the Sustainability Leaders Agriculture & Environment category.
Eve Faulkner of FutureFeed, which aims to improve environmental outcomes.Livestock Australia predicts that Australia’s cattle herd will reach 27.2m head in 2022. That’s roughly one cow for every Australian. Globally, cattle population is expected to hit the one billion mark this year.
“There is so much work being done by our farmers in sustainability and we are proud to be a tool for their emissions management. Our science is currently applicable in feedlots and dairies and the wider industry is working on ways to takeis already on the rise but it’s still early days for FutureFeed.
Since foundation, v2 has gone on to raise in excess of $185 million in funding with a valuation exceeding $500 million, delivering shareholder value and funds to reinvest into the business. A result of more than 25 years of experience, research and innovation, Oliv.iQ is the exclusive and proprietary integrated olive oil production system of Cobram Estate Olives Ltd.
Cobram Estate Olives has recently received a grant from Sustainability Victoria to support the development of a new waste handling system at the Boundary Bend olive mill. The project will deliver an estimated 65 per cent reduction in the volume of the waste material it processes, lower greenhouse gas emissions and the creation of new commercial products.Toby Peet
For a little over a decade, Blantyre has also been harvesting the biogas from the pig’s manure to refine into methane for electricity.
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