Insects Bred For Oil In Pig Feed

Insects Bred For Oil In Pig Feed HOG EQUIPMENT & IDEAS InnovaFeed a French biotech company is focused on insect breeding and production with the goal of adding insect oil to swine diets They raise and transform Black Soldier Flies for animal and plant nutrition offering an alternative to other oils traditionally used in animal feed Dr Graziano Nantovani of Cargill’s Western Europe swine division believes adding this novel ingredient to hog feed will impact both performance and sustainability Insect oil has also been shown to positively affect gut health in hogs due to its fatty acid profile and lauric acid level which is known for its antimicrobial properties Chloe Phan Van Phi of InnovaFeed says insects are one of the most promising ingredient sources to boost global food system sustainability as they can upcycle poor quality food waste into top ingredients like protein Using the Black Soldier Fly InnovaFeed has developed an efficient vertical farming model to reduce land and limit resource use and carbon dioxide emissions Human interaction is reduced and insects are offered an adapted 100 percent vegetable feed diet helping protect them from disease In their France-based facilities larvae are grown in substrate wheat soluble and bran and mechanically harvested Extracted protein is used in pig feed with any waste returned to the land A small percentage of larvae are retained for reproductive purposes With two production sites operating in France and a third planned for the U S InnovaFeed has the largest insect production capacity in the world Contact: FARM SHOW Followup InnovaFeed 85 rue de Maubeuge 75010 Paris ph +33 0 1 84 60 50 09; www innovafeed com

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