As margins are ever more squeezed on farm, over the last twelve months we have seen a significant increase in farmers looking for a more sustainable and cost-effective way of applying nitrogen to their land while reducing farm inputs. Fish hydrolysates are now playing a key role in that search for solutions and are proven to stimulate soil life and supply nitrogen without the negative impacts attributed to synthetic nitrogen fertilisers. What is a fish hydrolysate? Hydrolysation is the process of breaking complex proteins into their component amino acids. These can then be utilised by both th...

Pelagia AS is a Norwegian owned producer of pelagic fish products for human consumption and an important supplier of essential ingredients in all kinds of fish and animal feed, protein concentrate and fish oil. The company also produces concentrated marine based omega-3 fatty acids for dietary supplement and pharmaceutical preparations. In the last few months they have moved into the plant health market. In 2019... ...its processing plant in Bressay on the Shetland Isles expanded its operations and obtained a licence to utilise the by-products from Scottish salmon farms with the aim of zero w...

I'd even go as far as to say that utilising waste products from both arable farming and food production has surpassed being a necessary idea when today’s environmental pressures are taken into consideration.  But how many products that tackle by-product waste from one industry can also claim to give back to another in a way that not only improves sustainability credentials but assists in: growing healthier crops producing more food  reducing reliance on chemicals improving investment return and, supporting a regenerative environment  How many can you count?  For the last...