FAMI-QS Certified
Sea Forest is proud to have achieved FAMI-QS certification for our Triabunna facility. The globally-recognised feed ingredients certification scheme, FAMI-QS provides customer assurance that quality, safety and operational practices meet regulatory requirements. The certification process is rigorous, and we are pleased to now offer this formal assurance to our customers, demonstrating Sea Forest’s unwavering commitment to excellence.
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ABC News
Six of the world’s largest dairy companies have committed to reducing, and publicly disclosing, their methane as part of a new global alliance launched at COP28.
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Sunday Tasmanian
It was a great honour to host US Ambassador to Australia Caroline Kennedy at our Triabunna site. With a tour of our facilities and a ride to the marine farm - the Ambassador's visit was special for the Sea Forest crew. It demonstrates the growing international interest in our work, and how Australian science and determination is providing solutions to a global problem.
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4 Pines Brewing Co.
Sea Forest has partnered with 4 Pines Brewing Co. to launch a climate-conscious brew called ‘Why Is There Seaweed In My Beer?’. A Tasmanian Pilsner with a dash of Nori seaweed, the beer aims to encourage discussion around livestock methane emissions and how our seaweed supplement can help address climate change.
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ABC News
"This solution we're building requires little to no behavioural change for farmers. So, it's business as usual and a tiny cost has this huge environmental outcome."
Watch Australian Story's Sea Change with Sam Elsom on ABC iview.
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ABC News
Sea Forest is named a finalist for The Earthshot Prize in the Fix our Climate category. Launched by Prince William and The Royal Foundation in 2020, the prestigious Earthshot Prize celebrates and champions innovators focused on solving our most pressing global climate challenges.
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Smart Company
Sam Elsom spoke with Liv Casben about Sea Forest's journey from concept to a large industrial operation, effectively commercialising Australian science, with support from Advanced Manufacturing Growth Centre Ltd.
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Weekend Australian
Fifty Australian inventions changing the world. How a former high-end fashion designer accidentally collided with his future and co-founded Sea Forest. “Australia is one of the most biodiverse places on the planet and there’s a tremendous opportunity to better understand the life of seaweed and its many uses.” - Sam Elsom.
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xero.com
Hosted by Julia Zemiro, Sam Elsom showcased the Sea Forest movement at Sydney’s Xerocon, explaining the methane challenge and how individuals and small businesses can make climate-friendly purchasing and finance decisions, like sustainable banking and superannuation.
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The Mercury
CEO Sam Elsom discusses the challenges of pioneering a new industry on Tasmania’s East Coast. Sea Forest is one of the nation’s most exciting new companies – and it’s already providing 55 local jobs. But while the business is thriving, it isn’t without teething problems.
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news.com.au
Popular burger chain Grill’d is looking to tackle climate change by rolling out what it claims is a “world-first sustainable” grass-fed beef made from cows that produce up to two-thirds less methane emissions than regular cattle.
Its new beef option will land on the menu of 61 Grill’d restaurants around Australia on Tuesday after it developed a way to feed its grass-fed cows Sea Forest’s native Tasmanian seaweed that reduces their methane emissions by up to 67 per cent.
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Agri Futures - Evoke Ag
After becoming Australia’s first carbon-neutral fashion brand in 2021, the tailors to farmers, footballers and the top end of town have partnered with Sea Forest, an environmental technology company based in Tasmania, to further decarbonise their business by attacking the gassiest part – the sheep that produce the wool.
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Australian Resources
Australian burger chain Grill’d has unveiled its collaboration with biotechnology company Sea Forest in an effort to roll out what it claims is a “world-first sustainable,” grass-fed beef burger made from black Angus cattle that produce up to 67% less methane emissions.
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Sea Forest Australia
We're delighted to see that the Federal Government has signed Australia up to the Global Methane Pledge to cut methane emissions by 30 percent by 2030.
Australia will join well more than 120 nations who have signed the Pledge, including some of the largest methane emitters in the world. This is a milestone moment, and a really important step in building a framework to deliver meaningful reductions.
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The Sydney Morning Herald
From designing clothes to refashioning cow burps: Sam’s $40 million career switch
After hearing of ground-breaking Aussie research into how seaweed could reduce planet-warming methane emissions in cows, Sam Elsom left fashion behind.
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The National Tribune
CEO OF INNOVATIVE SEAWEED GROUP TO ATTEND FEDERAL GOVERNMENT’S JOBS AND SKILLS SUMMIT
Sam Elsom, the CEO of Tasmanian innovative climate technology company and leading Australian seaweed producer, Sea Forest, has been invited to participate in the Federal Government’s Jobs and Skills Summit in Canberra on September 1st and 2nd.
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InnovationAus
Representatives at the jobs and skills summit from tech companies based in regional Australia have called for greater investment in regional communities to support the workforce required.
Tasmania-based seaweed producer Sea Forest’s chief executive Sam Elsom stressed the importance of increasing access to STEM education, but noted the importance of making regional Australia an attractive place to live.
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Food and Drink Business
Tasmanian seaweed producer Sea Forest says a federal grant of $3.8 million will be used to expand the commercial production of methane-reducing red seaweed, Asparagopsis.
Expanding production will enable Sea Forest to supplement over 400,000 cattle annually from the two sites, eliminating more than one million tonnes of CO2 emissions from livestock per year.
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Telstra Best of Business Awards
2022 Telstra Best of Business Awards Embracing Innovation Award and Promoting Sustainability Award national winner: Sea Forest (TAS)
Sea Forest cultivates a natural solution to climate change. The eco-tech company is among the first to commercially grow Asparagopsis, a native red seaweed with the ability to significantly reduce livestock methane emissions. In selecting Sea Forest, the judges highlighted the business’ world class innovation in science, manufacturing and supply-chain management making direct and measurable impact on a globally significant problem – climate change.
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Fonterra
In 2020, we entered a partnership with Sea Forest to see if using Asparagopsis seaweed as a supplement feed for dairy cows could reduce greenhouse gas emissions. This trial now enters its next phase including a new agreement allowing Fonterra farmers first access to this potential new seaweed solution.
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Food and Drink Business
Fonterra is working with seaweed company Sea Forest to expand its on-farm trials to quantify the methane reducing potential of Asparagopsis seaweed.
Over the past two years, 900 dairy cows on a farm in Australia have been fed small amounts of the seaweed supplement and the results have been promising. Fonterra is now expanding the trial across three additional farms to test the supplement’s application at a commercial-scale.
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Australian Financial Review
Australian menswear brand M.J. Bale is aiming to produce possibly the world’s first net zero-emission woollen knitwear, while helping to kickstart local wool processing and manufacturing.
The journey begins at the carbon positive-accredited Tasmanian wool growing farm Kingston, where the sheep are fed a diet supplement that includes eco-friendly seaweed called Asparagopsis, produced by Sea Forest.
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InnovationAus
There was a surprise result for the top award of the night at the first annual InnovationAus 2021 Awards for Excellence on Wednesday, with two finalists named as co-winners for the inaugural Australian Hero award.
The gong of gongs was awarded to both EcoTech company, Sea Forest Limited, and quantum computing pioneers Q-CTRL.
Sea Forest Limited also won the Food and Agritech category as well as the People’s Choice award for their innovative approach to reducing the greenhouse gas emissions from livestock. The company has developed a food additive which, when given in very small doses to livestock, reduces their methane production by up to 98 per cent.
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Food and Drink Business
AACo leads sustainability in Australian meat sector.
The company recently announced its partnership with seaweed manufacturer Sea Forest to reduce methane emissions from its cattle. The pilot program, co-funded by Meat and Livestock Australia, will start with 81 wagyu cattle having asaparagopsis seaweed incorporated into its feed.
MJ Bale
TRIAL UPDATE: SURF, TURF & CARBON NEUTRAL WOOL
Nearing the end of our world-first commercial trial to produce Carbon Neutral Wool via the virtues of Asparagopsis seaweed, M.J. Bale Founder Matt Jensen visits Sea Forest in Tasmania. Here, our skipper speaks with Sea Forest Founder/CEO, Sam Elsom, about the trial’s progress, as well as the broader potential for seaweed in the abatement of greenhouse gas emissions.
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Beef Central
Methane-reducing seaweed project focus swings to producing ‘at commercial scale’.
One of leaders in the large-scale commercial production of asparagopsis is Tasmania-based Sea Forest.
The company has this week received Federal Government co-investment of $675,000 to be used towards further development and manufacture the company’s novel method for cultivating growing, harvesting and processing asparagopsis to reduce methane emissions.
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i4connect
The genie in the bottle is a planet-saving business
The commercialisation of an Australian technology that turns a native seaweed into a livestock feed is thrusting agriculture and aquaculture to the forefront of the world’s fight to arrest climate change.
Asparagopsis is the product of Australian research and subsequent commercialisation by Tasmanian start-up company, Sea Forest – and it stands to become a breakthrough world-wide in helping to mitigate climate change.
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Global Food Forum
The 2021 Global Food Forum took place on 1 June 2021 and presented a world-class line up of industry experts to debate the critical issues facing Australia’s $150 billion agribusiness sector as it adapts to life after COVID.
Check out Sam Elsom, CEO, Sea Forest discuss with Jason Strong, Managing Director, Meat and Livestock Australia and Sue Neales, The Australian, about how we can meet consumer demands for meat and dairy in a low carbon world
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The Australian Museum
Australia has a long history of developing amazing ideas. In this Spark Exhibition, at the Australian Museum learn about inventions and innovative approaches offering positive solutions to protect our planet. From wind, solar and hydrogen energy to seaweed farms and biodiversity protection. See some of the technology and practices Australians are working on to reduce pollution, create affordable and clean energy, support the richness of plant and animal life, and ensure a livable future for all.
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The Saturday Paper
In the next 12 months, Sea Forest estimates it will have captured more than 1600 tonnes of carbon through the cultivation of seaweed. And through feeding seaweed to livestock, it will have avoided the emission of 400,000 tonnes of CO2e (carbon- dioxide equivalent, which is the standard unit for measuring carbon footprints). This is the equivalent of 100,000 cars being taken off the road.
By Tim Flannery.
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Australian Financial Review
Big guns pile into seaweed for green cattle.
Tasmanian seaweed farmer Sea Forest has attracted support from heavyweight investors as it looks to expand operations touted as playing a big part in Australia slashing its greenhouse gas emissions in agriculture.
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The Canberra Times
While it might sound like a fishy tale, a company is ramping up production of a specially cultivated seaweed as a livestock feed additive to reduce emissions.
The Morrison government has given $1 million to agricultural science company Sea Forest to increase supplies of its seaweed additive for livestock feed, which reduces livestock methane emissions by more than 98 per cent.
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The Hobart Magazine
With an established career in the fashion industry, Sam Elsom didn’t expect a conference call with climate scientist Tim Flannery to result in a move to aquaculture. Sam is now cultivating a native Tasmanian seaweed to sequester carbon and help reduce methane emissions from Australia’s meat, wool and dairy industries.
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Wish Magazine
Former fashion designer’s ultimate seachange.
Making the leap from the fashion industry to cultivating seaweed in Tasmania has allowed Sam Elsom to marry his nerdy passion for science with a bold plan likely to bring real environment and economic benefits.
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Tasmanian Country Hour
Fast tracking seaweed production to feed the cattle and sheep.
Sea Forest is growing the native Asparagopsis on re-purposed mussel farms in Mercury Passage.
CSIRO research has shown the red algae, when fed to cattle, can improve digestion and reduce their methane emissions by up to 80 per cent.
Sea Forest CEO, Sam Elsom told Laurissa Smith the funding to up-scale production is a game changer.
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Business.gov.au
Environmental game changers lead the way amongst Entrepreneurs’ Programme grant recipients
Tasmanian-based environmental start-up Sea Forest has been awarded a share in over $4 million of grant funding to commercialise their innovative seaweed farming project under the Entrepreneurs’ Programme.
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Australian Financial Review
Led by Sea Forest in Tasmania, seaweed farmers hope to produce the world’s first commercial-size crops of asparagopsis – the seaweed found by CSIRO researchers to slash methane emissions from cattle in the form of burps and farts when added to their feed.
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Wall Street Journal
Scientists have spent years coaxing a fussy red seaweed called asparagopsis into cultivation. Their plan: to feed the underwater plant to cows and sheep in an effort to make the animals less environmentally destructive.
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The Weekly Times
A Tasmanian farmer is putting a new-age seafood fodder diet to the test, in order to reduce his dairy herd’s methane emissions.
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Sydney Morning Herald
Flatulent cows no longer on the nose with seaweed solution to climate problem. Australian scientists and entrepreneurs have begun rolling out a commercial solution to a major source of greenhouse gases with a seaweed feed to block gassy livestock burps, and promising results offering more than a whiff of global potential.
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MANUAL - MJ Bale
One year on since they first discussed the possibility of M.J. Bale running a carbon-neutral wool trial at Kingston farm in Tasmania, Sea Forest seaweed producer, Sam Elsom, and M.J. Bale’s Head of Brand, Jonathan Lobban, catch up to exchange notes. “I just think we’ve got to go for it,” says Elsom. “We’ve got nothing to lose and everything to gain.”