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Marine biostimulant start-up to gets expansion boost

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A Welsh marine biostimulant start-up has been given the go-ahead to expand two sea farms. Now entering its third year of seaweed biostimulant trials, Câr-y-Môr has just been granted a marine licence from Natural Resources Wales (NRW) to expand two existing sea farms in the Ramsey Sound off Pembrokeshire. In March, the community benefit society (CBS) published results of seaweed biostimulant trials funded by the Co-op Foundation’s Carbon Innovation Fund. They showed that when synthetic fertiliser was cut by 40% and the seaweed biostimulant was applied to potato fields, fertiliser was reduced by 25% and 29%. Similar results were seen…