Farmers and researchers have already shared promising results. Researchers make game-changing discovery about so-called 'mini-livestock': 'This is important' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Insect droppings, commonly known as insect frass, may seem useless and downright disgusting, but scientists found that this waste can improve soil health when added as a fertilizer in farming.

This research does. With cockroaches … imagine all the food people don’t eat. You can take all that food and feed it to these cockroaches and grow plants with their frass.” ...

One of the greatest challenges facing the nascent insect agriculture industry is the tunnel vision around insects for protein production which has overshadowed the benefits of frass in soil health.

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The global market for insect protein was worth almost $1 billion in 2022, whereas the global market for frass was worth $96 million in 2023, with frass's growth estimated to be much greater.

Symptoms of this insect in your vegetable garden include the presence of frass (a fancy name for insect poop). Coarse, yellowish grains of frass look like sawdust on the ground under the vine and ...

Despite its benefits, though, frass isn’t widely used yet. Regulatory hurdles remain, and the US National Organic Program isn’t willing to fully embrace insect-based fertilizers.

Cockroach Extracted from Man's Small Intestine — and It Was Still Alive Doctors discovered that a 23-year-old who was complaining of indigestion had a live, 3-centimeter roach in his ...

Insect proteins arrived on the EU market in 2021. Just a few years later, producers are in dire straits. The insect food market is slowing down following years of growth, and the sector is calling ...

Insect droppings, commonly known as insect frass, may seem useless and downright disgusting, but scientists found that this waste can improve soil health when added as a fertilizer in farming ...

With a unique ability to consume nearly any form of organic matter it comes across, one small but mighty insect is becoming a tool to address the growing problem of organic waste and soil ...