Soldier Fly Technologies upcycles local agriculture and food waste streams into high-quality insect ingredients for animal feed, pet nutrition, and organic fertilizer. As we start to develop our distributed production network, we are moving full-steam ahead with our Baton Rouge-based processing facility. We have recently expanded our collection of pre-consumer food waste on LSU campus to include... Source ..read more

Did you know that most animals are raised on fish? It’s true! Fish meal is the main source of protein in many animal diets. This includes your pets at home as well as farm animals and even farmed fish.According to a United Nations FAO report in 2016, global fisheries produce around 168 million tonnes of fish each year. And that number keeps rising! Fish are plentiful and high in protein, around 65% Source ..read more

LSU was recently named a recipient of the 2020 Sustainability Innovation Award by APPA, a national education facilities association previously known as the Association of Physical Plant Administrators. APPA’s Sustainability Innovation Award recognizes unique and innovative sustainable practices in educational facilities and campus environments. It was introduced in 2012 to reflect APPA’s... Source ..read more

Beyond the common-knowledge that black soldier fly larvae are good feed for many types of livestock and efficient consumers of waste, we wanted to offer a deeper perspective by sharing some of the the lesser known facts about this fierce fly. We have known about BSF for more than 100 years. Some of the first scientific papers published on them looked at why we found so many in pit latrines and on... Source ..read more

Soldier Fly Technologies, a subsidiary of Port Allen-based cricket seller Fluker Farms, announced today that its joint research project with the LSU Department of Entomology has been selected to receive $60,0000 from the LSU Student Sustainability Fund. The grant will go directly to LSU Entomology to support the implementation of a food waste upcycling program on campus using black soldier fly... Source ..read more