AGRICULTURE

Salt is essential for animal nutrition to replace the sodium chloride lost through sweat and excrement, and passed on in milk. It promotes the growth and productivity of herbivorous livestock, which find very little salt in their natural diet.

It has four main roles:
• a nutritional function
• a palatability enhancer
• a carrier of minerals and trace elements
• a preservative for feed and forage

Nutrition is provided either through compound feed (for animals housed in barns) or by offering salt blocks that the animals can lick at will, according to their actual needs, without risk of over-absorption.

Salt is also a preservative whose dehydrating properties are used in salting forage: it prevents hay from rotting and preserves both its nutritional qualities, particularly those of the most energy-rich parts of grasses (leaves) and legumes (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 agricultural salts to meet the specific needs of all livestock farms requiring sodium chloride supplements: lick blocks of pure salt or salt enriched with minerals and trace elements, lick buckets, bagged salt, etc.

For more information: www.salins-agri.com