AGRICULTURE

Salt is needed in animal feed to replace sodium chloride eliminated through sweat and excrement, and passed into milk. It facilitates the growth and productivity of herbivorous livestock that find very little salt in their natural diet.

It has four main roles:

• - a nutritional function,
• - palatability agent
• - vector for supplying minerals and trace elements,
• - food and feed preservative.

The contributions are made by means of compound feed (animals in stables) or by providing salt blocks that the animal licks in self-service according to its real needs, and without risk of excess absorption.

Salt is also a preservative whose dehydrating power is used in the salting of fodder: it prevents putrefaction of the hay and preserves both its nutritional qualities, in particular those of the most energetic parts of the grasses (the leaves) and legumes (the leaflets) and its organoleptic qualities of color, texture (the hay is no longer brittle) and flavor.

The Salins Group, a specialist in salt for livestock farming, offers a complete range of salts for agricultural use to meet the specific needs of all livestock farms requiring sodium chloride inputs: pure salt licks or salt supplemented with minerals and trace elements, lick buckets, salt in bags, etc.

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