Maggots as stockfeed

Marian Macdonald
August 22 2019 - 11:00am
CHICKEN FEED: Goterra chief executive Olympia Yarger will tell the Global Food event in Melbourne that insect products have a big future in stockfeed.
CHICKEN FEED: Goterra chief executive Olympia Yarger will tell the Global Food event in Melbourne that insect products have a big future in stockfeed.

The larvae - or maggots - of one of Australia's native flies will soon be available as commercial feed for poultry, aquaculture and pets.

Marian Macdonald

Marian Macdonald

National rural property writer

Writing for farmers in the Stock & Land, The Land, Queensland Country Life, Stock Journal and FarmWeekly, farming in Gippsland.

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